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Social Security survivor benefits --and spousal benefits under other federal programs such as veterans' pensions --apply only to a legal spouse, not to an unmarried partner.
His wife, Judy, and her father, Howard, are members of the intelligentsia in an unnamed country in the near future, and the story--told by the three characters seated at a table in direct address to the camera--involves the gradual destruction of their lives by an oppressive regime, and the moral disintegration of Jack, the eponymous survivor.
When it comes to suburban high schools, though, I can say, as a survivor of the experience, that it's a community almost perfectly designed to crush, twist, and kill the spirits of those who are different, thoughtful, or just have the bad luck to be on the wrong side of the school-endorsed elite.
The emotional scars left by Pol Pot's terror reign are crystallized in a remark made by a "Killing Fields" survivor, quoted by both the WP and NYT : "If he's dead, hand over his body to the people.
A further limitation is the possibility of survivor bias.