Melanie Hack shares healing thoughts

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Going through your loved ones personal effects and keeping some of those items for yourself is an important ritual. When the time came for my family to choose which of Cindy’s items we would inherit, I hung onto the railing of Cindy’s deck and wept. All I wanted was Cindy back! I didn’t want any […]


Posted at: March 30th, 2007 - 9:52 am - Number of Comments » 0

When my brother-in-law, Larry, died in a plane crash in 1973, his body was fragmented and in such a horrible state from the fire that his casket had to be closed and my sister, Marlene, never got to see him. Years later she told me how she had had such a difficult time facing the […]


Posted at: March 19th, 2007 - 5:18 pm - Number of Comments » 0

I was twelve when my brother-in-law, Larry, died. I was not allowed to go to the funeral. He was like a brother to me and nobody talked to me very much about his death. For years I was haunted by a sense of unreality and yearning for him to “come home”. I still have the […]


Posted at: March 9th, 2007 - 12:27 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Many people who have shared their sorrows with me about their own losses of loved ones have told me how “lucky” I was to have a “meeting” with Cindy (see my previous Blog entry) and how they yearned to also have such an encounter with the person they lost in death. I’ve heard how other […]


Posted at: March 1st, 2007 - 9:25 am - Number of Comments » 0