[drdeca]

I imagine one could, in principle, look at how this varies (on average) with how much money a person has and/or their income.

Hm, if one did, then perhaps one could use this as a basis for expressing how much people value other things?

Though, I suppose there's the question of like, how would someone trade off risk of dieing within N years vs dying within 2N years. Like, if something would increase one's chances of dieing within 2N years by some quantity, but decrease one's chances of dieing withing N years by some other quantity, at what values would people make or not make that choice? (or, in the other direction).

Depending on how that works out, maybe that would mean that this isn't a great foundation for translating between "how much do they value this (in dollars), at their current income level" and "how much do they value this (in some other unit which is hopefully more natural in some sense)".

Is there something else that would be a better basis?