The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

* $2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa* £15,180 to hire a hitman* $368,901 to pay the average ransom demandWe say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or co…

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