Losing a loved one is never easy. As we work through
grief and feelings of loss, we may try to comfort ourselves by
thinking of a death being an end to suffering if a person had a
lengthy illness, or perhaps to try to celebrate a long life or one
lived to its fullest.
If a death is unexpected and someone leaves us "before
their time," it can be especially difficult to process our
grief. And if the death came about due to another's negligence,
or was intentional, there is an added complication.
A "wrongful death" is a fatality that occurs in
circumstances where a party (an individual or institution) is
alleged to have caused the death through a wrongful act, either
negligent or intentional. In these circumstances there may be need
for criminal and civil litigation in the interest of seeing justice
done.
