@ai6yr

If you don't know for sure some may hang on to that thread like a lifeline.

My aunt died in her home, we had to get a welfare check. My mom lived in a head space for ages on what she could have done differently to help. Even though the my aunt took a year to agree to go out to dinner, she was such a shut in. Still, my mom struggled. Grief is hard, and weird. Hope can help people avoid accepting death.

But there is a difference between knowing she was dead for maybe 10 days, and knowing for sure she was eaten by her cats.

We're the kind of family that will make macabre jokes about that sort of thing, now that enough time had passed, but it was not so pleasant when trying to catch said cats in her home.

@ai6yr Mrs had a “second mom” go missing in the Marble Mountains years back. Never found.

@ai6yr Read that recent story about the woman & her daughter in the PNW who were mauled by one or more grizzlies. Even thinking about the condition of those bodies is unnerving; actually knowing their condition would screw most people up permanently.

@ai6yr Ive found that family and friends usually they want a body found because it gives closure. But we work a lot of HRD cases. Live find need has decreased in my region as cell coverage has increased.