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Famous Eulogies

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

Yellow balloon with "LIFE" floats against a clear blue sky, creating a bright and uplifting mood.

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

What Makes Us Sentimental?

When we ask what makes us sentimental, I think what we are really asking is what makes us human.

Apr 207 min read

Is a Eulogy More for the Living Than the Dead?

I believe there is a quiet paradox at the heart of every funeral. We gather to honour someone who cannot hear us. We write carefully chosen words for a person who will never read them. We stand at a lectern, voice trembling or steady, and speak into a room full of people, not to the one we have lost, but to those who remain. So I think there's a profound, maybe even unsettling question to be asked which is who, really, is a eulogy for? Traditionally, we are taught that a eulo

Apr 68 min read

Can You Read a Eulogy If You’re Not a Family Member?

Funerals are, at their heart, deeply personal occasions. They are spaces where grief, memory, love and legacy converge, often within a structured ceremony that asks someone to stand up and speak on behalf of a life lived. Traditionally, that role falls to close family members, but what happens when it doesn’t? In modern funerals, it is increasingly common for friends, colleagues, neighbours, or even professional celebrants to deliver a eulogy. This shift raises an important q

Mar 309 min read

How Social Media Has Changed Grief

Over the last 2 decades or so, social media has engrained itself into every aspect of our lives.... and death. Grief no longer unfolds solely in living rooms, places of worship, or quiet walks through familiar streets. It unfolds on timelines. In group chats. In comment sections. In archived message threads we cannot quite bring ourselves to delete. Photo by Mariia Shalabaieva on Unsplash Like it or not, the internet is no longer just a tool for communication; it has become

Mar 211 min read

Is It Wrong to Refuse to Give a Eulogy?

Many of us have been there at some point.. The question lands in your inbox, a notification pops up on your phone, or a relative whispers it to you at a tense family gathering following the loss of a loved one... "We'd like you to speak at the funeral" . Being asked to deliver a eulogy is often framed as an honour, a testament to your close relationship with the deceased or your eloquence under pressure. But for the person receiving the request, it can feel less like an hono

Feb 239 min read

What is Goodbye Theory?

Have you ever had a conversation with someone that felt oddly final, even though no one spoke of endings? Have you ever looked back at your last meeting with someone, now deceased, and felt an almost haunting sense of closure, or a painful lack of it, woven into the fabric of that seemingly ordinary interaction? This experience lies at the heart of something called The Goodbye Theory , also known as The Last Meeting Theory or Last Look Theory. The fact that it has 'theory' i

Jan 1910 min read