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I'm with you all. Unasked intervention and shipping people off is extremely invasive and can do a great deal of damage. What is so often neglected is that one is dealing with people. The possession or absence of a body doesn't mean anything if one's still lingering around this plane or a related 'mundane' (aka non-afterlife) one. And in a good deal of cases, if someone still has business around, they mean it and it's a serious thing. This patronising tendency of many spirit-workers to take spirits of the dead as cute little ghosts that don't know what is good for them and that can be moved about at will like puppets disturbs me quite a bit. Why should one give up on what's important to oneself and “just move on” and not care anymore, just cause someone feels like playing the benefactor and chalk one up the list? Sometimes there are legit concerns, and something tangible someone is waiting for, and the issue can be fixed, either with proper individual help and advice, or by oneself, or with just a little patience. Reasons to linger shouldn't be dismissed as casually as they so often are.