How is the value of life measured? To find out a human’s life value, life insurance companies created a clever calculator to simplify the task of determining the monetary value on life. The “Human Life Value Calculator, is a free resource available to anyone online. The Human Life Calculator has been designed to help you assess your financial value to those you love by estimating the future financial contributions you will make to your family  as is quoted in the description center of the website. Though, many Americans would like to think that life is “priceless.”