About an Eulogy

Just a quick one for today as I am still in the midst of creating and editing two posts.
One, is where you will get to see me become a grammar Nazi and another one, which is more descriptive. I need time to describe...hahaha.
You can anticipate these two. :)

Ok, if I were to ask you my dear friends, to write an eulogy for me, now, while I am still alive, can you do it???

According to dictionaries, an eulogy is a speech or writing praising a person, especially in honor of a recently deceased person.

Presenting an eulogy is good, in fact, it is one of the hardest things to do at the funeral of a loved one. Most of us will find it hard to hold back our tears as we speak of the ones we love.

My question to you is this:
Why do we praise and say good things about a person after he or she has passed away?

Can the deceased person hear you?
Will he or she know how you actually feel or think about them?

No, right?

Then why do we do it after some one's death, when it's too late and not before, when we were with them, alive?

Why?

And thus, I shall now leave you with this thought provoking ending.

Comments

Lai Tee @ Grace said…
maybe there is another term(s) to use for praising the living ones, like word of encouragement or praise or compliment..however you call it, just that the word eulogy is specially meant for the deceased...what do you think?
Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:01:00 AM
Kath said…
Hahaha. No no, I'm not concentrating on the word eulogy. More of why do we say good things about a person after they are gone...My priest was the one who brought this up to us actually.
Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:52:00 PM
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