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September 2024

Giving a eulogy doesn’t have to be a nerve-racking experience –  just speak from the heart.

What giving four eulogies in four years has taught me

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.

  • Matthew Gibbs

January 2024

Vendors wearing masks sell seafood at an open-air wet market in China; a similar market in Wuhan was identified as a possible source of the first outbreak of coronavirus in December 2019.

Conspiracy theories are nonsense – until they feel right

Nobody is a conspiracy theorist in their own mind. Those who believe the moon landings were faked are presumably just as confident as I am.

  • Ed Cumming

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/topic/real-life-614