Maggie Rowe

The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.

American Comedian

Beeban Kidron

I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

English Director

Regina Brett

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

American Journalist

George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

American Critic

Ambrose Bierce

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Author

George Carlin

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Voltaire

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

French Writer

Saint Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

American Musician

A eulogy is often personal, highlighting the good a person did and the impact they had.

Respecting the Deceased

Eulogies are formal; they are usually given in front of an audience at memorial services.

Formal Speech

Eulogies focus on positive memories and virtues, avoiding any negative speak about the deceased.

Positive Emphasis

 that get mentioned in the eulogy, which are who are you, in your depth, what is the nature of your relationships, are you bold, loving, dependable, consistency? And most of us, including me, would say that the eulogy virtues are the more important of the virtues. But at least in my case, are they the ones that

David Brooks: Should you...

 i wrote a book called dilly love on hooves which is the story of the love that she brought into our life i was diagnosed with stage four endometrial cancer and as i reread through my writing i realized that that was my eulogy