{"id":13596,"date":"2018-05-23T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:06:09","slug":"human-rituals-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/23\/human-rituals-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Robert Hansen: When Human Rituals Go Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humans have developed elaborate rituals surrounding the key turning points of our all-too-brief lives. The “baby shower” for the mother-to-be. The “christening,” and the “bris,” for the newborn. The First Communion and the Bar-Bat Mitzvah for coming of age. The “Wedding,” yes, that one too, for it brings the expectation of a new human (maybe more). And, of course, the funeral, the final rites, the easing of the once living into the next orbit. There are many ways to do them, but each ritual is rooted in the same need.<\/p>\n

At each of these rituals, we are joined to the great arc of our forbearers, our family, our community. These are joining’s, not leaving’s; even at the ultimate moment, when our lives are memorialized in the funeral ritual, we are remembered through the presence of those who will go on living, until they too meet this day.<\/p>\n

These rituals are what people refer to when they speak of “closure.” The rings cannot be closed without them. At death we want the rituals.<\/p>\n

Not this:<\/p>\n

“Body located w\/ head in northerly direction in the embankment under six inches of leaves and soil and under a log, on its back.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Handwritten\"Courtesy Alaska State Troopers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Rituals\"
\nLisa Futrell (Courtesy Alaska State Troopers)<\/strong><\/p>\n

NOTE: Beginning in May of 1984, when troopers began searching Hansen’s grave sites in earnest, Sgt. Flothe abandoned his typed diary and started making handwritten entries. The first of these is presented here.<\/p>\n

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Purchase Butcher, Baker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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