Why do you visit their graves? *

Please select all reasons that you DO visit the graves of friends and family.

I feel like I don't have a choice (obligation)

It makes me feel like I'm visiting with that person

My religion prescribes or encourages visitation of graves

To maintain the grave and/or leave mementos

To honor or remember that person

As a part of my grieving process

Just feel like doing so

As a part of a cultural celebration (e.g. Día de Muertos, etc.)

I have never really considered why I do go to visit their graves

Not applicable/I don't visit graves

Why do you choose not to visit the graves of friends or family? *

Please select all reasons that you do NOT visit the graves of friends and family members.

Their grave is too far away to visit

Emotional distance/estrangement inhibits my desire to visit them

I lack the time to make the trip to a cemetery regularly

I dislike/am uncomfortable being in a cemetery

I don't see a reason to visit them

I have never really considered why I do not go to visit their graves

Not applicable

Are you ever a cemetery tourist? *

Do you ever go to cemeteries or graveyards without the purpose of visiting the grave of a well-known friend or family member?

Yes; I frequently go to cemeteries for reasons other than visiting the graves of friends and family

Yes; I will sometimes go to cemeteries for tourist reasons (e.g. visiting culturally significant graveyards/cemeteries such as Arlington National Cemetery)

No; I avoid visiting cemeteries, if at all possible

What reasons influence you in touring a cemetery? *

If you do tour cemeteries, please select the top three reasons that you do so.

N/A - I don't ever go to cemeteries that don't contain the graves of friends or family for me to visit

Historical interests (e.g. early Puritan cemeteries)

Military Memorial interests (e.g. Arlington National Cemetery)

Taphophilia - I find the architecture of cemeteries and grave memorials interesting and/or beautiful

Taphophilia/cultural curiosity - I want to see cemeteries or graves of other parts of the world

Ghost tour (i.e. a professionally led tour with a guide, usually telling stories and histories, focusing on the paranormal)

Historical tour (i.e. a professionally led tour with a guide, usually covering the history of an area and its former inhabitants)

In search of ghostly, spiritual, or other paranormal experiences

Personal recreation, such as exercise

Visiting the graves of celebrities/people I admire

It's a thematically appropriate activity (e.g. it's near Halloween)

Religious Identity *

Do you identify with any of the following religions? Please select the option that most closely matches.

Protestantism

Catholicism

Christianity

Judaism

Islam

Buddhism

Hinduism

Native American

Inter/Non-denominational

Pagan/Neopagan/Other Earth-Centered or Polytheistic Faith

None