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Originally Posted by jets4life
I doubt it. I think the brother may have been more grounded in reality, and accepted the fact that his sister was likely dead, and was able to heal quicker. Parents, especially mothers, will hold onto any faint hope their child was alive, regardless of the source.
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I'm pretty sure it is cut out of the FilmRise version, but in the original segment, you see Amy's brother and mother walking with the brother's wife and at least one of their children. They mention that Amy's father had died the year before. Susan (Amy's mother) mentions that if she can't find Amy in her lifetime, she wants Josh (Amy's brother) to continue the search.
I am sure Josh does want his sister found, but Amy's disappearance also caused a lot of distress in his own life. I believe he really wanted to (and still wants to) focus on his family and not uproot his own life to dedicate all his time to searching for Amy. She's almost certainly dead and while of course upsetting, he probably has long since accepted this.
Reading the book Susan co-authored with Greg Aunapu, you can see that Josh was still very much in the picture toward the end of Susan's life and supporting his mother even if he did not dedicate his life toward the search.