[untog]

If you're still alive, yes. And even then, if you were paralysed from the neck down (for example), would you really be able to enjoy the millions you got in court? Financial compensation for crippling illness always struck me as quite strange.

[mseebach]

The point of financial compensation isn't really to compensate the victim (or their family), it's to push the cost of the externality created back onto the provider, giving an incentive to act sensibly.