The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar ManEssay By: Harold J. Morowitz
Harold J. Morowitz in his essay "The Six Million Dollar Man" examines the value of chemicals presents in human body and arrives at a conclusion that human body is indeed priceless.
Once the writer received a birthday card from his daughter and son-in-law where it was written that the material value of human body was worth 97 cents. Being a scientist himself the writer because curious and decided to examine the statement with the help of catalogues give to him by biochemical companies. He calculated various human body chemicals ranging from $2.95 to $175,500,000 per gram. He discovered that the average of human body chemical was $245.54 per gram. Further calculation brought the value of writer's body chemical is six million dollar.
Bring a scientist, the writer calculated the human body chemicals tin the highest information and purified from. However even if the author bought all the chemicals, he knows that he would not have a human being. After detailed analysis, finally the writer comes to the conclusion that human body is really priceless. It is improper to compare human beings in terms of money.
