Most, if not all, states' workers' compensation systems offer survivors' benefits, sometimes called death benefits, as a safety net to the surviving dependents - usually spouses and children - of workers whose deaths are connected to work-related injuries or illnesses. The particular details of the survivors' benefits programs vary by state, but most provide burial benefits plus some proportion of the workers' wages. What workers' comp relief might there be for surviving dependents of workers who take their own lives by suicide?