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As the title says, welcome to my blog! This is the place to find out what's happening with PostScript as a business, but more often it's here to give you some entertainment, some knowledge, some insight on subjects I'm passionate about or, failing that, just somewhere to pass the time.
I want to update this blog regularly (workload permitting) so please come back often to read our latest posts (the latest one is always at the top). Please feel free to share them with your family and friends, comment and, if you like any of them, please hit the heart icon ♥️. Enjoy!
What Is Terror Management Theory? Understanding Our Fear of Death
Does Terror Management Theory answer the question about why we don't talk about death?
1 day ago10 min read
Why Do We Struggle to Talk About Death?
Let's look at a big question... What does it actually mean to no longer exist?
Sep 79 min read
100 Blog Posts Later: What Writing About Eulogies Has Taught Me About Life
This is it! My 100th blog! Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for all the support.
Aug 3110 min read
How To Write a Eulogy for Someone With A Complicated Life
When I tell people I write eulogies for a living, most display a mix of surprise and confusion. However, many others often sigh with relief. They imagine (as I did when I first started PostScript) that I spend my days memorialising kindly grandparents, beloved teachers, and selfless volunteers—people whose legacies are neatly packaged in goodwill and warm memories. But the truth is, many of my clients aren’t mourning saints. They are mourning human beings, and human beings, a
Aug 2410 min read
Eulogy for an Estranged Mother
Back in May, I published a blog titled “Eulogy for an Estranged Father” (linked here if you missed it). I don't mind saying I was overwhelmed by the response. My inbox was soon filling up with messages from people who'd read it from across the UK and North America thanking me for giving voice to a grief they felt they weren’t allowed to own. It made me feel really proud that I could help them albeit virtually. The response to that piece highlighted something important to me:
Aug 1710 min read
A Eulogy for Afrika Bambaataa: Taylor Made for Music
Picture the scene. It's the early 1990s. A young man from the north of England has reached the end of his teenage years and is becoming an adult (kind of). He's moved away from sneakily listening to the 7" singles and LPs of his older brother and father at home and developing his own taste in music, in line with his newfound independence. With the income from his first tentative steps into the world of work burning a weekly hole in his pocket, combined with his newfound love
Aug 1010 min read
Writing a Collaborative Eulogy: How to Involve Family and Friends in the Process
When I sit down with a new client to discuss writing a eulogy for their recently lost loved one, the first thing I see is usually a mixture of grief, love and sheer, unadulterated panic. Those emotions, including the panic, is completely understandable. In the immediate aftermath of a death, just as we're coming to terms with their loss, we are asked to perform one of the most profound linguistic tasks of our lives: to summarise an entire human existence into a ten minute spe
Aug 310 min read
Writing A Eulogy for a Friend: How to Honour Them Respectfully
Few things are more difficult than saying goodbye to someone who has been a true friend. Unlike immediate family, friends are the people we choose to spend our lives with. They become our confidants, our partners in adventure, our shoulder to cry on, and often the keepers of memories, even embarrassing ones, that no one else shares. When you're asked to write and deliver a eulogy for a friend, it can feel like both an enormous privilege and an overwhelming responsibility. Nat
Jul 2710 min read
Meaningful Ways to Commemorate a Loved One Throughout the Year
On the day this blog is published (20th July 2026), my Mum would have been 91 years old. It's been nearly three years since she died, and I miss her every single day. This day is tougher than normal for my family and me. Her passing, along with my father's a couple of years earlier, is the reason you're on this website and why I decided to make a living writing eulogies for people. With that in mind, I wanted to commemorate her passing with a different kind of blog today. I h
Jul 208 min read
How to Support Someone Writing a Eulogy
When someone is asked to write a eulogy, it is often seen as a privilege. It is a chance to honour a loved one, celebrate their life and speak on behalf of family and friends during one of life's most emotional moments. However, what many people don't see is the enormous pressure that comes with that responsibility. As a professional eulogy writer, I've worked with countless individuals who have been entrusted with delivering a final tribute. Almost every one of them has said
Jul 139 min read
Eulogy Writing for Children: How to Explain Loss in a Tribute
Losing someone we love is one of life's most difficult experiences, but when children are involved, it can feel even harder. Alongside managing our own grief, we often find ourselves asking another challenging question: How do we explain this to them? As a professional eulogy writer, I've worked with many families who want to create a tribute that not only honours the person who has died, but also helps the youngest members of the family understand what has happened. Children
Jul 68 min read
Writing a Eulogy When You Don’t Know Where to Start
"I don't know where to begin". As a professional eulogy writer, I probably hear that statement more than any other from potential clients. Families contact me every week feeling overwhelmed because they have been asked to write or deliver a eulogy for someone they loved deeply, yet they simply cannot find the words. I understand that feeling completely. They worry that they are not good writers, that they will forget something important, or that they will somehow fail the per
Jun 297 min read
What If Eulogies Were More Honest? - Balancing Truth With Kindness
I'm sure that, at funerals across the UK and around the world, a familiar pattern often unfolds. Someone steps to the lectern, takes a deep breath, unfolds a carefully prepared sheet of paper, and begins to speak about a life well lived. The stories are warm. The memories are affectionate. The flaws, if mentioned at all, are usually reframed as charming quirks rather than serious shortcomings. "He could be a bit stubborn." "She always said exactly what she thought." "He was
Jun 2210 min read
How to Honour Someone Who Didn’t Like Fuss
I’ll never forget the call from a lady in Cheltenham earlier this year. Her mother, a former librarian named Joan, had passed away peacefully at ninety-two. “The problem is”, the daughter whispered, as if sharing a state secret, “Mum would loathe a traditional funeral. She hated being the centre of attention. She’d go bright red if you even sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to her”. This is a dilemma I encounter more often than you might think. As a professional eulogy writer, I spend m
Jun 88 min read
A Eulogy for Neil Sedaka: Love Will Keep Us Together
Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm a MASSIVE music fan. I love it. I have music playing in some capacity from waking up to going to sleep. I love all genres (well, almost all - death metal, not so much), but you'll find all styles, new and old, from hip-hop to folk and everything in between in my library. I think I got that from my late Dad. When I was younger, I used to sneak downstairs and ''borrow' many of my late father's LPs (long before CDs or streaming). I didn't kn
Jun 17 min read
Eulogy for an Estranged Father
There are few eulogies harder to write than one for a parent from whom you were estranged. When a father dies after years of distance, silence, conflict, or emotional separation, grief rarely arrives in a neat or recognisable form. Instead, it can bring confusion, guilt, anger, relief, sadness, regret, numbness, or all of them at once. People often assume that death magically repairs fractured relationships. It does not. The death of an estranged father does not suddenly eras
May 267 min read
What Is Cosmic Timing Theory?
In those first raw hours after a bereavement, time behaves strangely. It stretches into an eternity of grief, yet collapses so that the last conversation feels like it happened mere seconds ago. We find ourselves asking, “Why now?” and “Why not sooner?” or “Why couldn’t we have had more time?” These questions are as old as sorrow itself. However, an emerging framework that's part spiritual, part metaphysical, and deeply rooted in ancient observation offers a different lens. I
May 188 min read
What To Say In A Eulogy When The Deceased Doesn't Want One
At the time of publication, I’ve been writing eulogies professionally for nearly two years. Most of my clients come to me for many of the same reasons: either they are overcome by grief, crippled by the fear of public speaking, or simply too close to the words to shape them into something coherent, so I help them, and it's an honour to do so. But now and again, I receive a call with a different kind of anxiety lurking beneath the surface. “The thing is”, the caller will whisp
May 1110 min read
How to Celebrate a Life Instead of Mourning a Death
Despite what some people might think, there is no right way to grieve. For some, loss arrives as silence. For others, it comes as tears, anger, numbness, or an ache that lingers in the ordinary moments of the day like an empty chair at the dining table, a phone number still saved in your contacts or a birthday that suddenly feels heavier than it once did. Mourning is deeply personal, and no one should ever feel pressured to “move on” or to replace sadness with forced positivi
May 47 min read
What Makes A Life "Well Lived"?
What DOES make a life well-lived? There are few questions as profound or revealing, so let's take a look.
Apr 277 min read
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