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by pps43 2034 days ago
You can convert between financial loss and loss of human life using implied cost of averting a fatality [1], which is about $10 million.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

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That is not a bidirectional transform. A financial loss in an investment fund just means that other traders made more profit.