[drak0n1c]

There is a pervasive bias in "social issue" journalism to only assign responsibility to institutions and never even an iota on complainants. If closest relatives don't check in for the many months/years (as stated in the article) it usually takes a dying and then dead individual to reach this limbo status, and the deceased hasn't named them in a will, then they should own of the consequences of their ignorant estrangement (however cosmically unfair its reasons) and not seek frivolous lawsuits.

[drdeca]

And what of the person who hired a detective to look for the person? Or the hospitals that refused to return the bodies until they were done with them, after the family contacted them?