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Pain – what does it really mean?

Pain – what does it really mean?

Have you thought what pain really means? When our clients talk about their pain what do we understand about what they are going through? Here are fewbrief ideas about what pain really is: Nazis: when nazis wanted a man to talk they didn’t take his house, or his investment portfolio or confiscate his pension- they took his fingernails Sacrifice anything to avoid pain: We are willing to sacrifice anything to avoid pain. A mother would hock her wedding ring to…

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If a dead fish is worth $100,000 what’s a person worth?

If a dead fish is worth $100,000 what’s a person worth?

Did you see this news article? A blue fin tuna was purchased at auction in Japan for $104,700 in January of 2009! Now if a dead fish has a real world market value of more then $100,000 what’s a permanent injury to a human being worth? If we want to look at actual values placed on things by society we have no trouble doing that with material things. A dead tuna is worth $100,000 and a painting is worth $100…

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Monet paintings and damages for injuries

Monet paintings and damages for injuries

The Orsay Museum, located on the Left Bank of Paris, contains a major collection of impressionist painter Claude Monet. On an early Sunday morning October 7, 2007 four or five drunk young people broke into the Orsay Museum through a back door. The group first tried to force open other doors until they succeeded with the back door. It happened during an annual all night festival, The alarm sounded and the intruders ran out, but not before surveillance cameras showed…

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