The worst that he risks, however, is not imprisonment itself, but seeing his reasons for living disappear.
Gemma Rose Adams aged 25, born in Kesgrave, last seen outside a BMW dealership on West End Road in Ipswich, where she had been living, disappeared on 15 November at about 01.15 (UTC).
As a country, we watched an inconceivable number of lives disappear before our eyes along with the World Trade Center, a horrifying shared experience.
The following week, black students staged a protest, and Jena district attorney Reed Walters warned them at a school assembly: "I can make your lives disappear with a stroke of my pen".
In the days leading up to that decision, fights had erupted between black and white students, and the local district attorney, Reed Walters, reportedly gave a speech in which he warned students, "With a stroke of my pen, I can make your lives disappear".
Caregivers for Alzheimer's patients, in trying to help their loved ones, experience a range of symptoms that are like an existential plague themselves: exhaustion, depression, insomnia, mind-boggling stress… all while in the midst of the long process of watching someone they knew their whole lives disappear gradually before their eyes.
Bombing manuals unearthed in Afghanistan's militant guest houses "provide guidance about how to live and disappear in 'enemy' society," she said, "how to find apartments where people don't know one another, or in suburbs where neighbors don't talk".
The intense bond we had felt for one another all our lives disappeared.
The fiction that we are involved in their lives disappears; they mean so much more to each other than they ever could to us.
The moral question, 'What should I do?', is no longer asked in the first person, and is transformed into an engineering problem: 'What should be done to make men more ethical?' Similarly, the positivists were invited to live openly, whereby the distinction between private and public lives disappears.
