Closure definitions:Closure, or need for closure (NFC) – used interchangeably with need for cognitive closure (NFCC) – are psychological terms that describe an individual's desire for a firm answer to a question and an aversion toward ambiguity.A feeling of finality or resolution, especially after a traumatic experience. MORE than 30 years ago, a man I loved dearly went on holiday to the Northern Cape and never came home. Savvas fell to his death, slipping over the edge of the Augrabies Falls as he tried to take a photograph. His body was never found.The falls are around 60-m (200 ft) in height. The gorge at the Augrabies Falls is 240-m (800 ft) deep and 18km (10 miles) long, and is an impressive example of granite erosion.I know these useless facts only because I needed to know every single detail of the place where Savvas fell, and died. Or did he die?For the longest time, we – his best childhood friend, Ray, and I – wondered if he’d somehow escaped death. And if he wasn’t dead, w...
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