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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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 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

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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

Eulogy Ideas for Non-Religious Funerals

At least here in the United Kingdom, the way we say goodbye is changing. For centuries, funerals were closely tied to religious traditions, most commonly within the framework of the Church of England or other Christian denominations. As such, the format of a funeral has historically been fairly predictable; a religious service in a church or crematorium chapel, filled with hymns, prayers and the comforting but prescribed words of the clergy. However, as the nation’s relations

Mar 99 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' in

Jan 199 min read