They may have been united by a love for country
music, but the people gunned down two years ago at a
Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement.
The administrator overseeing the process will have the icy task of calculating the value of a life based on how much victims earned, the gravity of survivors' wounds and the hazy concepts of pain, suffering and emotional distress.
"It is a cold, mathematical calculation," said attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who has administered payouts for the nation's highest-profile tragedies.