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somber and funny at the same time? detail you wanted to incorporate in
Writing and delivering a eulogy is your speech. When you bring a copy
a therapeutic tool to help deal with of your eulogy to the podium make
your grief, and being chosen to give sure it is easy to read, print it out in
a eulogy is an honor and should be a large font, or if hand-written leave
treated that way. Here are some tips a few spaces between the lines. Keep
for writing and delivering an eloquent in mind your time constraints, it’s
and memorable eulogy. best to keep things on the short side,
especially if there are other speakers.
Gather information. Talk with family
members, close friends and co- Review and Revise. Your first draft will
workers to get important information not be the last. When you think you
on the deceased. Some important are done, sleep on it and look it over
information to include in the eulogy in the morning when it is fresh again,
is the person’s family and other close Practice, Practice, Practice. Read over
relationships, their education/career, your eulogy several times in order to
hobbies or special interests, places become familiar with it. Practice in
the person lived or travelled to, and front of a mirror, read it over to some
any special accomplishments they friends or family and have them give
had. you feedback. Become familiar with
your speech so you can recite without
Organize your thoughts. Jot down making it look as though you’re
your ideas by whatever means are reading from a script. The more you
most comfortable and familiar to you. practice the more comfortable you
Create an outline of your speech, will be. Make them laugh, but be
and fill in the information that you respectful. A funeral is not a roast,
gathered about the person. however there is room for humor in
your eulogy. Fondly remember a story
Write it down. This is not a toast at a about the person that everyone can
wedding where you can make off the relate to. Keep it appropriate, there
cuff remarks, and you should not adlib will be children and the elderly there
a eulogy. Writing it all down allows who may not share the same sense
you to include and remember every of humor. Laughter is truly the best
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