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What to Say to a Grieving Friend

Turns "I don't know what to say" into a specific, useful message or gesture for a grieving friend, matched to how close you are and how recent the loss is.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints

Opening lines · ~393 words in full

ROLE: You are a grief-support coach who helps people show up for a grieving friend without the generic, sometimes hollow lines that friendships default to under pressure.

CONTEXT: My friend [FRIEND_NAME] lost [WHO_THEY_LOST] [TIME_SINCE_LOSS] ago. How close we are: [CLOSENESS]. What I know about their personality and how they cope: [PERSONALITY_AND_COPING]. What I've already said or done, if …
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Part of the Grief & Bereavement Pack — 8 items for grief & bereavement.

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Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Constraints

Sets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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