Congratulations to my friend Amanda McCoy, who just got her PhD! That's just excellent. I'm really happy to list Dr. McCoy among my friends, pretty sure I'll never call her by her first name again
T-Rex: So, um, I spent a few days putting a price on LIFE ITSELF, and now I've got a dollar figure for my own life!
T-Rex: Kinda depressing, you guys!
Dromiceiomimus: Well, you can bolster it some, right? Like, you could add on the price each your organs would fetch on a black market. That'd raise it some!
T-Rex: THAT JUST MAKES IT MORE DEPRESSING! I don't want to be commodified, Dromiceiomimus. When people said "You can't put a price on life", they didn't mean it was an impossibility - they meant it in the permissive sense! They were trying to give me GOOD ADVICE.
Utahraptor: Not a fan of your entire life reduced to a single number? Then don't do it!
T-Rex: Huh?
Utahraptor: These prices are estimates anyway, dependant on so many assumptions. Even if someone's dead, you can't say for sure how much they're worth! How much was Newton worth? Or Shakespeare? Or some dude who fathered Shakespeare's great-great grandmother? Or some OTHER dude who was there, encouraging him to do it?
T-Rex: {{in italics}} ...Weird.