# What is worth more to you than your own life, and why?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 18, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-worth-more-to-you-than-your-own-life-and-why/326789 "2005-10-18T19:07:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-worth-more-to-you-than-your-own-life-and-why/326789/21 "2005-10-19T18:58:34Z")

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> [@Lissla Lissar](#):
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> My family. Particularly my husband, but not my cats.Probably my parents and his parents. My closest friends, too. Dunno about country.
> 
> I think your sig quote is by G. \*\*K[/]. Chesterton.

Of course it’s by G. K. Chesterton. That’s what it says.

::whistling innocently::

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**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-worth-more-to-you-than-your-own-life-and-why/326789/22 "2005-10-19T21:26:43Z")

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My parents and my sister are probably worth my life. Her husband and my boyfriend may be negotiable, though.

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