There isn't a specific kind, exactly, but most people seem to agree that a birthday cake should have at least two layers and plenty of frosting.
[That makes her pause. Root takes a little longer to reply this time around.]
Well, cremation is obviously discarded in those cases, but some people do a regular funeral in which they bury an empty casket after the religious ceremony takes place. Mourning the dead when there isn't a body is [another pause] complicated, to say the least.
[She knows this from personal experience: her childhood friend was kidnapped and murdered, and it took over twenty years for the authorities to find her body and give her a proper burial. They were lucky they found her body at all. (Hanna's killer was dead just two years after she disappeared; Root took care of that.)]
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[That makes her pause. Root takes a little longer to reply this time around.]
Well, cremation is obviously discarded in those cases, but some people do a regular funeral in which they bury an empty casket after the religious ceremony takes place. Mourning the dead when there isn't a body is [another pause] complicated, to say the least.
[She knows this from personal experience: her childhood friend was kidnapped and murdered, and it took over twenty years for the authorities to find her body and give her a proper burial. They were lucky they found her body at all. (Hanna's killer was dead just two years after she disappeared; Root took care of that.)]