If you are reading this, someone important to you has died and you have been asked to speak. First — it is okay if you can barely find the words right now. That feeling is normal. That feeling is grief. And grief, as it turns out, is exactly the right place to start.
The greatest eulogies ever given were not written by professional writers. They were written by people who loved someone deeply and found a way to say it out loud. That is all a eulogy needs to be.
A eulogy is not a biography. You do not need to cover their whole life. You need to capture something true about who they were — and say it with love.
Open with a memory. Move to who they were as a person — their character, their laugh, their stubbornness, their kindness. Share one or two specific stories. End with what they meant to you and what you carry forward from them. That is all. Simple is not lazy — simple is powerful.
If you break down, pause. Take a breath. The room will wait for you. They are grieving too. Your tears are not weakness — they are love, visible. Nobody in that room will judge you for it. They will love you for it.
Read your eulogy aloud at least three times before the day. You will find the places where your voice cracks. That is not a problem — it is preparation. When you know where the hard parts are, you can breathe through them instead of being blindsided.
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