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