WHAT IS LIFE WORTH? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11

As the head of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Feinberg was asked to do the impossible: calculate the dollar value for the dead and injured. This is the author's personal account of the three-year struggle to compensate grieving families for catastrophic loss. It was the most harrowing experience of Feinberg's professional life.