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.  Read More Health & Wellness 

Matthew Gibbs

Sep 20, 2024 – 5.00am

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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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