other forms of damages as well, including “the ‘lost’ value of services such as companionship and care ... and the loss of advice, guidance and counsel.” Id. at 607, 902 A.2d 238 (citing Green v. Bittner, 85 N.J. 1, 4, 424 A.2d 210 (1980)). The proper measure of damages in a wrongful death action is the deprivation of a reasonable expectation of a pecuniary advantage that would have resulted by a continuance of the life of the deceased. Curtis, supra, 83 N.J. at 569, 417 A.2d 15 (internal quotation and citations omitted). A wrongful death action can only be brought for the benefit of a decedent’s heirs. N.J.S.A. 2A:31-4. The action is commenced by either an administrator ad prosequendum of the decedent or an executor, if the decedent die , 537 N.Y.S.2d 26, 533 N.E.2d 1055 (1988) (<HOLDING>). The only other consideration of the issue by
holding that federal estate tax credits that the decedent would have received had he lived longer could not be recovered in a wrongful death action absent express legislative authority recognizing cause of action for wrongful death holding that the loss of prospective federal estate tax credits as a consequence of an insureds premature death is not an element of damages under the florida wrongful death act holding that premature payment of estate taxes was not a recoverable loss in a wrongful death action because the test is a measurement of benefits of pecuniary value that the decedent might have been expected to contribute to the surviving spouse and children had the decedent lived holding that a cause of action for wrongful death is an asset of an estate