Gary Michaels

In the two years or so since I started PostScript Eulogies, I have written hundreds of eulogies for people who have lost someone. In that time, I have done countless video calls or sat in living rooms with grieving families, notebooks open, asking a widow or a daughter or a best friend to tell me about the person they lost, and in almost every one of those conversations, the same quiet regret soon surfaces. At some point someone will say, "I wish I'd known what she wanted" or "We never talked...

Trust me when I say that writing a eulogy for a parent is never easy. I've done it twice for my own parents when they passed, and it was the hardest thing I've ever done. I'm sure that writing one for a foster parent would feel just as difficult and possibly even more complicated. When someone has opened their home and their life to you, perhaps during a difficult or uncertain period of your childhood, the relationship you develop can be enormously significant. A foster parent may become a...

Does Terror Management Theory answer the question about why we don't talk about death?