Whether or not this holds true for clergy, counselors, etc. was not tested. Furthermore, funeral directors did not have fewer depressive symptoms than others regardless of which of the variables above were looked at, i.e., age, income, etc. Amount of death education was correlated with lower depressive symptoms. I have NO reason to believe that an investigation of others associated with death and bereavement would yield different results. It would be interesting to do a Death Attitude Scale Analysis of funeral directors and others.
Social support is important for recovery.
Suicide involved the most variability in social support i.e., most for support services to help. Accidents involved the most blame Homicide involved the most loss of belonging support and feeling that death was not 'real'. They are less able to cope. Bereavement is more intense than that from homicide, accidental death and natural anticipated or natural unanticipated death. It does appear as though the length of time, difficult in coping, etc.