[Chay sat tapping his pen on the page of his journal for a moment in thought]
Hmm.. Never thought of it that way. I would like to think that if a Spirit/Ghost/Soul - if you prefer - had someone to mourn them that it would be easier to find the River. Maybe that is why we take the time to do it. Lots of smoking pipe rituals there, and burying of bound strands of hair. The ones that are lost are perhaps the Spirit's that aren't mourned.