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Day 21<br />
Write Your Own Eulogy<br />
It’s something all of us have imagined at one time or another. What would<br />
it be like to die and attend our own funeral? Who would be there? How<br />
many people would come? Will the woman who spurned our love be devastated<br />
and finally realize how great we were? Will someone you thought<br />
you were close with be surprisingly composed?<br />
And of course the thing we wonder about most is this: What will people<br />
say about me? What will people remember about my life and how I treated<br />
them? How will I be eulogized?<br />
Today we’re going to take these imagined musings one step farther. We’re<br />
going to write our own eulogies. It may at first blush sound a little morbid,<br />
but we all must confront our mortality from time to time. Our society does<br />
a bang up job of hiding death from our view and many of us live in a state<br />
of denial about the fact that we’ll one day be pushing up daisies. But we all<br />
will. Acknowledging this fact can help us concentrate on living each day<br />
with purpose. Even if we live until we’re 90, that day will arrive faster they<br />
we can imagine. Life is short: carpe diem!<br />
How to Write Your Own Eulogy<br />
Of course you can’t come up with your own eulogy without knowing how<br />
to write one in general. Many of us probably don’t have much or any experience<br />
in eulogy writing. So let’s go over some basic guidelines.<br />
There are several different formats a eulogy can take, and were we writing<br />
a real eulogy, you would want to take some time to come up with memories<br />
and humorous stories to weave into your speech. But for our purposes<br />
today, we’re going to keep our DIY eulogies simple and straightforward.