Latent functions of enfranchising the disenfranchised griever

In Kenneth Doka's Disenfranchised Grief, papers examined a bellwether of our times, disenfranchised grief. One variety is the grief felt by people with no socially legitimate right to grieve. The increasing prominence of this kind of grief stems from the extra-familial relationships that are coming more and more to constitute our personal lives. The recommendation implicit in most analyses is to enlarge the circle of legitimate grievers. This article explores the latent functions of enfranchising the disenfranchised griever. This issue is a specific case of a more general problem: the allocation of sympathy and support in any person's dying.