Profits: A Matter of Life and Death

Profits: A Matter of Life and Death

It is an anniversary one does not celebrate, but mourn. The pain is still fresh — piercing and overwhelming for the loved ones of the nine Washington, D.C.-area residents killed in the crash of two red-line Metro trains near the border of D.C. and Maryland on June 22, 2009.

In our grief, we realize that accidents do happen, that even terrible mishaps, which snatch away lives and devastate those of us left behind, cannot always be prevented.

But out of love of life — for both those departed and those remaining, including the 70...