Reflection 3: (Buy) Life Insurance!*

Life insurance is a weird concept. You pay and pay and get nothing in return in person. Once you die, your relatives get some lump sum and possibly your funeral expenses are covered. All that effort put, to save money for others to ensure that you are buried. Can you really put a price tag on someone's life? How could you really evaluate one's worth?
No wonder sci-fi authors are hung up on this weird concept.

H.G. Wells refers to life insurance in War of the Worlds on pg70 saying that God is not an insurance agent. Likewise, life insurance business finds itself in Ender's Game on pg37 where two people are discussing military in relation to other careers: "if you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance." I don't know if it requires any brains, but the business has been around for a century now...and it might gain importance once the human cloning business becomes legalized. We might be questioning the "Human Rights Treatises" once the human cloning project is on the move.
Food for thought.

*I really don't care if you choose to buy life insurance or not. I personally think it's kind of unnecessary.