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• Review and Revise. Your first draft • Practice, Practice, Practice. Read
will not be the last. When you think over your eulogy several times in order
you are done, sleep on it and look it to become familiar with it. Practice in
over in the morning when it is fresh front of a mirror, read it over to some
again, that will be the time to make any friends or family and have them give
necessary revisions. you feedback. Become familiar with
your speech so you can recite it without
Make them laugh, but be respectful. making it look like you’re reading from
A funeral is not a roast, however there is a script. The more you practice the
room for humor in your eulogy. Fondly more comfortable you will be.
remember a story about the person
that everyone can relate too. Keep it Don’t be afraid to show emotion.
appropriate, there will be children and Funerals are an extremely emotional
the elderly there that may not share event, nobody expects you not to shed
the same sense of humor. Laughter is a few tears. However, if you feel that
truly the best medicine, and some well you will be too strongly overcome by
placed humor will help people cope, your emotions, have a back-up plan in
and will bring back fond memories of place where someone you trust can
the deceased. deliver the eulogy for you. Give them
a copy well in advance if you feel this
could be an issue.
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