A suicide deeply affects six people close to the deceased, research suggests.
Often these are families who do not qualify for the state funeral payment because someone close to the deceased has a job, and is deemed capable of paying.
The Million Deaths Study MDSS) uses "verbal autopsies" or post-mortems - interviewing those close to the deceased about what happened before their death - as a way of addressing this gap.
Detailed interviews with those close to the deceased provided the necessary data.
I had been to funerals before, but this was the first time I was so close to the deceased and so aware of the judgments of the people attending the funeral and receptions at the home later.
As a result, our process involved writing a program using Facebook's Javascript API to search publicly viewable Pages for shrine or memorial pages set up by those close to the deceased".
51.8 % reported feeling moderately to strongly close to the deceased patient.
They all felt close to the deceased patient, but only a minority (17.6 %, lowest percentage) were responsible for her/him.
The psychological autopsy method, which is based on interviews with informants close to the deceased, is currently the most direct technique to examine the relationship between specific factors and suicide [ 13].
Therefore, theoretical education and clinical training combined with sufficient support should be provided to all professionals in a more systematic way [ 22], and should be accessible particularly to professionals who felt close to the deceased patient.
