The omnipresent media has let injury become an aspect of identity

“We want to move on with our lives,” say the wounded. “But before we can do so, we must have closure.”

Nobody can progress towards normal living without the new sacrament of closure. It can be administered by an apology or an award, a tribunal indicting a group or individual or a legal process convicting and satisfactorily sentencing someone.

Closure has become a national entitlement; the place of peace and serenity at the end of a purgatory of suffering. It is seen as a therapeutic necessity and a human right.