It’s been just over a year since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing with 239 people on board, and while there’s been no sign of the aircraft despite expansive search efforts, it’s important that search go on, says grief expert Russell Friedman.
Not a single piece of debris from Flight 370 has been discovered, and it was reported that the plane’s underwater locator beacon had an expired battery. Officials said the bad battery didn’t hamper the search efforts for the plane in a swath of the Southern Indian Ocean hundreds miles from Perth, Australia.
So, given the complete lack of progress, the immense challenge posed by the search area (the Southern Indian Ocean is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth), and the cost of the operation ($94 million so far), why should the Malaysian and Australian governments continue the search for the aircraft?
