Lyn Jackon, whose son, Matthew, went missing in 2009 and Alan Smith, whose brother, Donald, went missing in 1988, discuss their experiences with Missing People’s Peer Support Manager, Emily Rawlinson.
Lyn and Alan reflect on how they try to manage what can sometimes seem like conflicting feelings of ambiguous loss and hope as well as their personal motivations for completing the Presumption of Death process.
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