There’s something so deeply ingrained in us that it seems like no matter how rough life is going at the moment, we’re never really ready to go. We don’t want it to end, yet. I get it. Humans are survivors. And we have hope. Yes, life can throw us curveballs and our best-laid plans can be tossed aside, but there’s always tomorrow. When country music star Kenny Chesney sang “Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody want[s] to go now,” he captured the idea that we just want to live our lives and we don’t want them any shorter
A Brief History
In common law countries such as the United States and Canada, pursuing a claim for wrongful death, or a fatality caused by the negligence or otherwise wrongful act of another, was not possible. This was the case because the deceased had no legal rights under
