Missing Internet Pioneer Phil Agre found alive (NPR)

Sometimes people decide to disappear. The Police (and indeed many Missing Persons charities) are content if they discover that they have left of their own volition, there's no reason to intervene. Often family and friends, and even mere acquaintances find this hard to understand, but it's really not their right to have another person account for such a decision let alone to argue with them about it.

I am reminded of this: (from Greg Egan's Diaspora)

"That was the price of autonomy: an inalienable right to madness and suffering, inseparable from the right to solitude and peace."