What is the appropriate amount of time to keep a flag at half mast?

Question

When someone passes away, how long should a flag be left at half mast?

Answer 1

Only the President and State Governors can allow flags at half mast and only the President and State Governors can say when it gets raised back up to full mast.

The only exceptions are at the below links, the usflag.org site being the offical Flag site.

Answer 2

In Mourning:

1. Following the death of the President or a former President, the flag should be flown at half-staff for 30 days.
2. Following the death of the Vice President, the Chief Justice, a retired Chief Justice of the United States or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the flag should be flown at half-staff for 10 days.
3. Following the death of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a Secretary of an executive or military department, a former Vice President, or the Governor of a State, territory or possession, the flag should be flown at half-staff from the day of death until interment.
4. Following the death of a Member of Congress, the flag should be flown at half-staff the day of death and the following day.

Answer 3

If the flag has been ordered to half-staff by a governmental body, then the time is usually 30 days.

Answer 4

When president order the flags lowered for the VT shootings, he put it for the following Sunday. It can vary, but it is the president for the us flag and the governors for state flags that decide. We are not supposed to lower the flags ourselves.

Answer 5

I think a Day
It has something i think to do with the rising and setting of the Sun and the rising and setting of life a bit like the shortness of duration of the symbolism of flowers
If you get my poetic meaning