Grief as a Family Affair

Property Rights, Grief Rights, and the Exclusion of Close Friends as Survivors

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629068
AutoresFred Sklar (Mission College, Santa Clara, California, autor de correspondencia)
Año1992
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas109-121
Fecha de publicación1992-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/aujn-ljk5-229f-9a3r
OpenAlexW2030459996
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

A recent Omega article by Sklar and Hartley established that although the close friends of one who dies—survivor-friends—grieve and mourn much as do family members, they tend to be excluded from legitimate and open grief and mourning rituals. No explanation was presented for this exclusion. This article proposes an explanation in terms of conflicting property norms. With respect to the transmission of property at death, a normative conflict exists between the property rights of family and the property rights of close friends of the deceased. It is argued that close friends are denied grief rights to prevent them from exercising their property rights, allowing family members to make their claims unimpeded

Epistemology · Grief · Normative · Political science · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology