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Do You Still Laugh? Do You Still Sing? Words and Ways to ease your heart when a parent dies

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Excerpts from the book Do You Still Laugh? Do You Still Sing? Words and ways to ease your heart when a parent dies.
Actress/Producer/Author Melinda Augustina shares excerpts of her letters to heaven and experiences after her parents died.

• Added on: Jan 5th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Melinda Augustina
• Listed in: Death & Dying Beliefs & Causes
• Tags: death death and dying death in the family death of father death of mother melinda augustina

Recent Posts

• Music for funerals and memorial services…

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 13:18 in angels, five stages of grief, music for funerals and memorial services, dance on my grave, music for funerals, music for memorial services, seconds flat, voices of angels

  Music you choose for your loved ones memorial service is a deeply personal decision.  Some families have a very easy relationship with music.  There are songs that define the members of the family very easily and that is the music the family choose...

• When someone dies, what you really want to know is “All is well…”

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 12:53 in funeral, death of parent, death in the family, all is well, death of father, death of mother, what to say at a funeral, what to say when someone dies, poem about death, what to read at a funeral, poem for a funeral

  We found this piece of prose when my mother died.  I think someone gave it to her when my father passed away.    Author is Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral ‘The King of Terrors’, a sermon...

• “Daddy Was a Big Man…”, For Father’s Day

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 11:27 in dad, obama, Father, daddy, father's day, my father died, how to honor your father on father's day, what to do on father's day when your father is dead

  Daddy was a big man. He was a big man with a big voice - a big, loud, spontaneous laugh and splendid story telling ways. He was a lot of fun. Quick, strong, bold, big, decisive movements were the patterns of his being. He walked with an East Coas...

• How Joan Didion and Eleanor Clift addressed their grief.

  Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 16:06 in joan didion, the year of magical thinking, eleanor clift, charles zanor

  Psychologist Charles Zanor wrote a very thoughtful article with two different views on grief. Joan Didion and Eleanor Clift. Remember, you are not alone. http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-grief29-2008dec29,0,6670897.story?page=1  &#...

• A Few Angels for you…

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 11:45 in Buenos Aires, cemetery, angels, recoleta, death in the family, angel sculptures, death of father, death of mother, what to say when someone dies, things to do when someone dies, do angels exist, final tribute

  Angels are comforting to many people, so I am posting a few here.   I can’t say for sure that angels exist, but if they don’t, I will be a little disappointed.  These are angel sculptures from Recoleta, the magnificent cemetary in Buen...

• My heart looks for you everywhere…

  Posted on Saturday November 8th, 2008 at 18:07 in grief, grieving, last will and testament, the letters, stages of grief, on death and dying, what to say at a funeral, what to say when someone dies, when someone dies, my mother died, my father died, death of my father

  Mother,       My heart looks for you everywhere.  When I arrive at the airport.  When I enter your house.  Looking in the dining room I see Regina - and for a second - my heart thinks she is you.  My heart skips a beat and a flash of excit...

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