Missing people - Leaving a legacy of emptiness

THE vast, almost bottomless and uncharted, internet can enrage and inform, entertain and educate, mislead and have a negative or positive influence, but even in this huge resource, the sites devoted to trying to find missing people are amongst the most poignant.

Those dedicated to trying to trace children are almost too harrowing for words.

This phenomenon is nearly always a great tragedy causing those abandoned to live a life of worry and guilt, a life wondering what they might have done wrong or what became of the loved one who disappeared without trace.