Is it possible to sue a deceased person's estate?

[Snowfire]

A friend of mine recently had a very traumatic experience. Her father's friend committed suicide by hanging, and had previously arranged for the two of them to meet him at his house. We now think this arrangement was so that he would be found before he had been a long period.
My friend has obviously been very distressed by this experience and is now suffering severe PTSD and struggling to deal with what happened.
Her father's friend was a wealthy man and his (7 figure) estate is going to relatives who he had little contact with.
Is it possible to sue his estate for the emotional damage caused by the trauma of finding his body in these circumstances?

Are you taking the piss?

It is possible to sue a dead person. I am not sure of the details but I remember years ago the estate of one deceased suing the estate of another.

However in the UK you normally can only sue for a measurable loss. Is there quantifiable loss of earnings?

Isn't the daughter inheriting?

Erm. How exactly is she going to prove she was invited so she'd find the body. The only person who can corroborate her theory is dead.

I doubt she will have a case and will cause herself more stress and financial cote trying to prove one.

The dead person had asked her and her father to meet at his house. He didn't have any immediate family and his estate will go to some nieces and nephews.

The bit that jumps out at me here is "her father's friend was a wealthy man..."

Sorry ignore my comment. For some reason I read it as her friend's father

However in the UK you normally can only sue for a measurable loss. Is there quantifiable loss of earnings?

Not so. It is entirely possible and normal to claim damages for things like pain and suffering. That certainly includes PTSD.

Possible or not it would be heinously poor taste.

I echo Msrisotto.

So, no compassion for a man who was so distressed that taking his own life was the only option and the fact that he wanted his body to be found. There is an argument to say that suicide is a selfish act, but honestly!

What about the trauma of his poor relatives?

It's a horrible experience for your friend, but is money really going to make this all better.

Apart from all of that I don't think legal action would succeed in these circumstances. At least I hope not.

I know I'm being too emotive, but really.

Yes you can, this is the process jimmy savilles victims are going through at moment. But he committed crimes against people, can't see any crime in this case was committed

Lisamed you are wrong about the loss of earnings.

So there's nothing to prove that when he invited the two of them he intended to kill himself and proving this would be extremely hard.

And other posters are right. It would be in massively poor taste.

Extremely poor taste and very grabby I'm afraid.

The fact that it is even mentioned that the deceased has left a seven figure amount just about sums it up

Wow.

Incredibly poor taste and very greedy.