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Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Eulogies: Timing Is Important

Eulogies honor the dead, and withholding them from the living avoids morbid implications and social debt created by positive, biased praise.
Philosophy
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Lorraine Courtney: It's time to ban eulogies outright - funerals are not an open-mic night

Eulogies should be excluded from requiem masses to preserve the centuries-old ritual, with personal remembrances reserved for wakes instead.
fromBuzzFeed
5 months ago

My Dad Had Some Unusual Requests For His Funeral. 3 Years Later, People Are Still Talking About It.

"If people aren't laughing during my memorial, you've done it wrong," my father told us for years, long before his death. "Funerals are inherently sad; for mine, cut the treacle a bit with humor." He thought a lot about funerals. Growing up, death was a dinner table conversation at our house almost every night, because my dad was an estate planning attorney. He always protected his clients' privacy, but would bring the lessons home: Never fight with your siblings over money.
Mental health
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