Why, yes they would.
Before taking up the issue with me, perhaps you should explain to your wife why she and your children are not precious.
I'm sorry, ctdonath2, but I believe you are missing the point of the post. It is like the tired old metaphoricle question, "is it true you've stopped beating your wife."
My wife and children are precious to me.
Y'know, Jesus was precious to the apostles, but God took His BM away anyway.
Or did he...?
An observation I almost posted is that there are some ideas which are so preposterous/evil as to be not worth further analysis. "Life isn't precious or sacred at all" is one of them.
Good answer #72 notwithstanding, the original assertion is still completely wrong. Life IS precious. We ARE to protect life diligently and passionately. We are to undertake the taking or leaving of life as a profoundly grave matter. Knowing that one's spirit continues on thereafter is a joyous comfort (depending on _where_ the spirit continues), and we may take peace in knowing that God has decided when "it's time". However, in recognizing the nature & continuation of one's spirit, we must not neglect valliant efforts in protecting and sustaining the "container". There is an impact, often evil, linked with the loss of life. To even suggest that "life isn't precious or sacred at all" creates the grave danger that one may neglect the protection thereof, if not accept contempt for it and subsequently sinfully take it under the delusion that something lesser is worth more. Such ideas historically lead to "kill them all, God will know His own."