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I have to agree with the comment that a civilized society is one that searches for it's dead. My sister died last summer in a river accident. The sheriffs searched for her as one of their own family. A pair of kayakers found her body and treated her with great respect, wrapping her in their own table cloth.

The respect shown by all of the "strangers" involved was incredibly important to all of our family and a great characteristic of our civilization.

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