If you’re called upon to praise the departed, resist the temptation to deliver an obituary. Recount your own memories, and you’ll say what many are feeling.
I’m so happy we’ve got someone who does eulogies,” my relieved aunt said to me as I prepared my fourth family eulogy in four consecutive years recently.
It’s my melancholy duty – and meritorious one too, I hope – to be the family eulogist. The one who, as the word means, praises the dead.
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