What was the relationship to you of the person who died?
(The vertical axis represents the number of respondents who selected each answer.)
How close were you to the person who died?
(The vertical axis represents the percentage of respondents who selected each answer.)
How long ago was your loss?
Did you experience any of the following symptoms?
(The chart shows only the nine most common responses.)
In the first six months, how intense were your symptoms of grief on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being most intense and 1 being least intense?
Were your friends able to understand and empathize with you while you were grieving?
Were your colleagues able to understand and empathize with you while you were grieving?
Was your family able to understand and empathize with you while you were grieving?
Do you feel you were able to freely express your grief?
Do you feel as if you moved on easily and had the support you needed to do so?
Did you feel as if people wanted you to move on, stop talking about it, or "get over it, already"?
Did you see a therapist or another professional to cope with your grief?
Did anyone encourage you to seek professional help?
Did you feel alone with your grief in the first six months after your loss?
How long did it take you to get back to feeling relatively normal again after your loss?
Did you take any time off work because of your loss?
Would you have liked to take more time off from work? If so, what was the reason you didn't?
Did you use online grieving communities such as virtual cemeteries, online support groups, or Facebook memorial pages?
Would you have liked there to be more options for commonly practiced grief rituals—anything from lamenting to wearing black—that you could have participated in?
