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Particularly not when "society" is a sparsely populated county with a low-six-figures budget for the entire sheriff's department. The dude died when he landed at the base of the cliff and his body was found a year later by a hobbyist. That means everything the county spent looking for him was completely wasted. I wonder if the family, entitled as they seemed in their grief, used any of the money they raised from donors to reimburse the county's expenses? I wonder, as well, if the hobbyist actually received the advertised $50k reward? He seems like someone who knows what's going on, so I wouldn't be surprised to find that he had split the reward with the county.

I fell while downclimbing a cliff off-trail in remote federal lands in Colorado, but landed mostly on my backpack. That fall, the night I spent finding the trail again, and walking out the next morning are some of my best memories. This wasn't a tragic death.