I Want to Say a Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One's Funeral

I Want to Say a Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One's Funeral
Author: Peter Billingham
Publisher: Peter Billingham
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1913911454

Are you worrying about how to find the words to honour your loved one’s life? Would a gentle and straightforward step-by-step process of writing a few words help you through this difficult time? Does the idea of standing up and speaking about your loved one in front of others seem daunting? If you answer yes, then this book is for you. You are now no longer alone in your desire to speak about a loved one. “I Want to Say A Few Words: How To Craft a Heartfelt Eulogy for a Loved One’s Funeral” serves as your compassionate companion in this important journey. More Than A Template - It's a thoughtful and reflective process. This is far more than a ‘fill in the blanks eulogy template’ process. It’s an invitation to reflect, remember, and write from the heart about your loved one. Even if you have never spoken in public before and fear doing so. This book is not about rushing through to a finished eulogy. It aims to offer you a thoughtful, measured approach to writing a eulogy for your loved one’s funeral that is as unique as the life it celebrates. Writing A Heartfelt Eulogy Becomes Easier With This Toolkit. It provides a simple four-step process and sixteen practical worksheets to help you create a memorable and heartfelt tribute. Whether it’s a eulogy for a grandparent, eulogy for a sibling, eulogy for a spouse, eulogy for dad, or a eulogy for a family member. How will reading and working through this book help you? It will help you: Gain the confidence to write a heartfelt tribute that honours your loved one. Reflect on their impact and articulate it that does justice to their unique spirit and personality. Tap into memories and explore eulogy ideas. Find inspiration with sixteen practical worksheets to walk you through every step. Create a eulogy that soothes the hearts of others and celebrates a life well-lived. What's included in this book: ✓ An invitation to reflect, remember, and write from the heart. ✓ A four-step process and sixteen practical worksheets to help you craft a memorable eulogy. ✓ A compassionate professional eulogy writer who has crafted over 700 eulogies to guide you. ✓ An empathetic approach to writing a eulogy. ✓ 169 pages - A4 size workbook with lots of space for making notes and capturing memories. ✓ Free 34 page PDF download of all worksheets and supporting resources in eBook. As you reflect on your loved one, an empathetic professional eulogy writer who has crafted over 700 eulogies gently guides you. The author packs every page with experience, understanding, and helpful advice, so you're never alone on your writing journey. “I Want to Say A Few Words” helps you explore eulogy ideas, capture the essence of your loved one’s life, their joys, their journey, their legacy. It encourages you to tap into memories. To reflect on their impact, and to articulate it all in a way that does justice to their unique spirit and personality. Writing a heartfelt eulogy that honours the life of your loved one starts with this book.

A Labor of Love

A Labor of Love
Author: Garry Schaeffer
Publisher: G M S Pub
Total Pages: 95
Release: 1998
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0964578018

Death in the Classroom

Death in the Classroom
Author: Jeffrey Berman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0791477371

In Death in the Classroom, Jeffrey Berman writes about Love and Loss, the course that he designed and taught two years after his wife's death, in which he explored with his students the literature of bereavement. Berman, building on his previous courses that emphasized self-disclosing writing, shows how his students wrote about their own experiences with love and loss, how their writing affected classmates and teacher alike, and how writing about death can lead to educational and psychological breakthroughs. In an age in which eighty percent of Americans die not in their homes but in institutions, and in which, consequently, the living are separated from the dying, Death in the Classroom reveals how reading, writing, and speaking about death can play a vital role in a student's education.

Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593320816

From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

The Last Word

The Last Word
Author: Julia Cooper
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1770565019

The Last Word investigates the debased art of eulogy. Through insightful, surprisingly playful readings of famous eulogies (from a scene in Love Actually to Jacques Derrida’s heart-rending essays on the deaths of his peers), Cooper argues against the socially sanctioned desire to avoid thinking about death that results in clichéd memorials, honoring neither the living nor the dead.

The Great Santini

The Great Santini
Author: Pat Conroy
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2002-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553381555

The piercing, iconic semi-autobiographical novel of a domineering father and ambitious son, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine—fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben’s got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn’t give in—not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy’s most explosive character—a man you should hate, but a man you will love. Praise for The Great Santini “Stinging authenticity . . . a book that won’t quit.”—The Atlanta Journal “[Pat] Conroy has captured a different slice of America in this funny, dramatic novel.”—Richmond News-Leader “Conroy takes aim at our darkest emotions, lets the arrow fly and hits the bull’s-eye almost every time.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Robust and vivid . . . full of feeling.”—Newsday “God preserve Pat Conroy.”—The Boston Globe

Instant Eulogy

Instant Eulogy
Author: Mike Mercuré
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2010-09-22
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781453751169

Instant Eulogy is a simple-to-use guide for those who want to express the sentiments, memories and emotions they feel for a loved one. This book outlines five easy steps for you to follow. You will learn how to set the appropriate mood for your speech, how to use stories and warm memories to portray your loved one's special qualities, how to convey your message and to how to stay calm as you deliver the eulogy during the funeral service. This 170-page book includes 22 sample eulogy speeches and 110 quotations to help you develop your speech. Instant Eulogy also provides 47 paragraphs filled with ideas you can use to create a touching eulogy quickly and easily, even when you are sad. The book contains sample eulogies for Mother, Father, Son, Daughter, Sister, Brother, Friend, Husband, Wife, Grandmother and Grandfather. In addition, you'll find sound advice on planning the funeral and selecting a casket, as well as 101 things to do to comfort and assist survivors in the days and months after the funeral. There are also 14 tasteful pieces of humor to relieve the tension that will be surrounding everyone the day of the memorial services. You'll also get six checklists: -- Planning a Funeral -- Taking the Initial Steps -- Making Important Decisions -- What To Do Before the Funeral -- Funeral Homes -- Twenty-eight Links To Grief Support And Funeral -- Planning Websites With the guidance Instant Eulogy provides, you can deliver a eulogy that conveys your deepest feelings for your loved one. Your words will forever remain in the memories of family and friends.

How to Write a Eulogy When You Have No Time

How to Write a Eulogy When You Have No Time
Author: Kathryn Vagatai
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2013-08-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781478381242

When time is of the essence and you want to honor those who have passed, this booklet can help you collect your thoughts and present them in a meaningful way to those you love.

Journey to Destiny

Journey to Destiny
Author: Edwin C. Briggs
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2010-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452055971

Journey To Destiny is the love story of two men, whose relationship spanned forty four years. As life partners, they shared an expedition of discovery; travel, financial success and failure, hardship, illness, tragedy, happiness, indiscretions and infidelities, but most of all, love. Respected for who they were, rather than what they were, their challenges were faced without prejudice or malice. Although Journey To Destiny is in many aspects an insight into the gay lifestyle, more importantly, it dissects the humor, adventure, heartache, devotion and commitment sustained during five decades. With unrelenting candor, the book is an intimate portrait into the reality of bi-polar disorder, Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, heart and lung disease; endured amidst happiness and heartbreak.