On average, more than 150 Australians go missing every day.

For each, more than 12 people are directly affected.

Missed works to alleviate the financial, emotional and psychological impact on families and friends left behind.

UNIQUE FORM OF GRIEF

Ambiguous loss

The type of grief families and friends of missing people experience is called ambiguous loss. Psychologists consider it to be one of the most traumatic kinds of grief and one of the most unmanageable forms of stress.

*Ambiguous Loss, the theory and the book; Emeritus Professor Dr Pauline Boss (Harvard University Press, 1999/2000)