"Death Benefits is the latest entry to a new genre targeted at the "mid-life orphan," the titles of which telegraph a similar silver-lining sensibility: Losing Your Parents, Finding Yourself: The Defining Turning Point of Adult Life; Never the Same: Coming to Terms With the Death of a Parent; Nobody's Child Anymore; Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone; The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change after the Death of Our Parents.

Despite this emerging market for adult-orphan self-help, Safer had trouble finding a publisher. The idea that children could benefit from parental death was seen as unseemly, she says. Some assumed "benefit" had to be financial. "I really had to fight for the title," she adds. "Death is a hard sell."

Clearly fascist point of view. Did she mention crematoriums? Or gas chambers? No wonder she wasn't able to find publisher; who will agree to distribute antihuman ideas?