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When my dad was on Iwo, in the opening minutes of the particular battle in which he fought, a mortar round blew apart a guy who was just a few feet away from my dad. A piece of meat from poor guy's body hit another guy next to my dad, hard enough to drive the guy face down into the dirt. Naturally, assuming that he had been hit by shrapnel from the blast, the guy reached around behind himself and felt a red gooey mass of flesh on his back and pulls back a bloody hand—and assuming it was his own, he started freaking out. My dad had to wipe the mess off of him, convince him that he wasn't hurt and calm him down and get him back into the fight. I've never forgotten that story.

I'm pretty much with 7075-T7. I have sympathy for dead boy's family, but it was his irresponsibility that caused severe injury to the woman who is suing, and people do have a legitimate right to be made whole through litigation when they are injured by another party's irresponsibility. If the other party was killed as a result of their own irresponsibility, that doesn't change one iota whether or not the injured second party has a right to sue, or whether or not it is the right thingo to do. When a drunk driver causes an accident in which he is killed and someone else is injured, nobody questions the injured party's right to sue the drunk driver's estate to recover damages. That is one of the prices of irresponsibility—even when the irresponsible party is a minor.

If the boy had been carrying an object, say his bicycle, across those tracks and he had dropped the bike and ran, made it out of there alive, but the train had struck the bike, flinging it onto the platform and knocking the woman down with the same injuries, nobody would question her right to sue the boy to recover the cost of her injuries which were entirely not her fault, and entirelyy his fault.

The dead boy's estate likely consists of whatever life insurance his parents had on him plus a bag of marbles in his dresser drawer. Maybe suing his estate was an attempt to recover damages, without suing his parents directly because she had some sympathy for their own grief. I guess I'm saying that, while it does sound creepy, we shouldn't be too quick to judge her.