Viviana A. Zelizer: Pricing a Child's Life (HuffingtonPost)
The complaints about the cheap pricing of a child's life, by the mother about an 11-year-old girl who died on 9/11, have a long history.

Recent Sub Prime Credit Crunch Could Increase the "Senior Life Settlements" Market to Record Highs in the Upcoming Year (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
While the recent sub prime credit problems have had an adverse effect on the mortgage and real estate market, diminished values in asset backed portfolios, it probably will accelerate the growth of the emerging "life settlements" market.

Man gets life on federal cocaine charges (The Pantagraph)
URBANA An Indiana man who organized a cocaine trafficking ring in several central Illinois counties was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in federal court in Urbana.