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Help find Prabh Srawn $50,000 reward 11-Jun-2013 At 8:29:10 AM Superstu

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Have the critics of the S&R services here actually ever been involved in a search of this nature? If you had you would have a deep respect for the S&R services professionalism in the face of an immensely difficult and sensitive task.

We have established the family is well adept at social media manipulation, also of the media itself and even politicians back home. For the S&R services there is one dedicated PR person who has the unenviable task of getting specific information out necessary to assist the search, but simultaneously trying to prevent a hungry media sensationalising the story or drumming up a someone-done-bad slant to fill the pages of their papers. So embarking on a slanging match with the grieving family over the efforts of the search is undesirable.

The S&R squad and their volunteers cannot continue searching indefinitely courtesy australian taxpayer and endless volunteer goodwill, and given the information they were working on (he left with nothing but a tshirt and jeans a month ago in an alpine environment, and it has since snowed) it is quite reasonable to scale back the search despite the sad news that this implies.

Gwil took offense and I took to bad humour to display disgust at the original offering from the family to continue the search - in the form of a reality-TV-style bounty to find him alive (but if you search all month and turn up nothing or worse a lifeless body, then bzzzz you lose no prizes for you). They have now since humanised their request for a continued search and hopefully closure.

The five stages of grief are denial, then anger, bargaining, followed by depression and finally acceptance. Sad that it has been such a public spectacle.