One of the more difficult things to do in life is to write a eulogy. Examples of eulogies may help a little. Basically what you have to do is speak before a crowd about the deceased. Sound terrifying? Especially since your emotions are stopping you from thinking straight. Now you are expected to get yourself together enough to embark on writing the eulogy. You might find yourself thinking examples of eulogies would help.

Now first things first - breath deep, stop panicking, and by following simple step-by-step guidelines, you can absolutely do this. You can do a good job for the person you have just lost. Let’s begin.

Quite a responsibility has been placed upon your shoulders. You don’t want to just say any old thing, or repeat what someone else has said in their eulogy - even though examples of eulogies at this point would be helpful. You want to deliver a personalized message, one that you can be proud of, and that others can take away with them. What you say will remain with your listeners for the rest of their lives.

The time required to prepare a eulogy and deliver it will vary from one person to the next. However as a general rule, it might take you hours and hours to research if necessary, depending on how well you knew the person, and how much more information you want or need from others. You may need to seek information from others about the following:

1. Stories from other family members

2. Stories from friends

3. Stories from co-workers or employers

4. Stories from neighbours

5. Stories from other associates

This process can be enjoyable as you may learn things about the deceased that you never ever knew.

Do not give up now - just grabbing whatever you can find in examples of eulogies is not respectful to the deceased, nor is it fair to the others who will rely on you to say what they can’t. By following these easy steps, you can write a beautiful eulogy.

The skill needed to do this is not as difficult as it seems at this very moment. Just try, and you will be amazed at what you can do. Just concentrate on one step at a time - let’s go.

After all your research is complete, either sit down at your computer, or get a pen and paper and lets get started on the next step. You need to note in point form only what you are planning to talk about. Your points should be very simple eg a town or suburb name, persons name, teenaged years, life accomplishment, social things, other memories and so on. Remember only a couple of word point form for now.

Now go back to your list, and change the order of your points to the way you think they should run. For example childhood experiences should be before the charity work dones as a senior citizen etc. Not exact, just whatever you think. Keep in mind now that you have already accomplished a lot just to be at this point. And you know you are doing this the right way - not simply cheating by changing examples of eulogies.

Next - take each point you have on your list, and expand it. You don’t need to write an A grade essay - just enough to explain the point you want to communicate to others. Read the sentences back as you write them. Read them out loud. Read them out loud to the front door, to the back door, to the kitchen sink. Pretend you are reading it to a person. Did it sound right? If not repeat it out loud the way it should sound, then change your written sentence.

After you have done this with a couple of sentences you will get the hang of it, and it will get easier with each sentence. After writing all the sentences, go back, and ignoring the fact that you probably haven’t written an introduction or conclusion yet, read it through out loud again. You may find you want to make some further changes as you go. This will come quite naturally as you read along.

An introduction isn’t always easy. An example of how to begin is maybe with a short comment, statement or very short story using the persons name. You could also state the main reasons you will miss him/her.

The final thing to add is the conclusion. You could include in this a blessing, a prayer, a nice poem, and other final thoughts you’d like share.

Then all that is left is to read the entire thing back to make sure it sounds like you want it to. A good idea is to either read it to someone else and ask them to help you with anything that doesn’t sound right, or get a tape recorder and record you reading it, and play it back. Then you can listen for yourself. Congratulations on making it to this point - you know you have done a good job no matter what you have written, simply because it is personal and came from you, and you didn’t take the easy way out and copy examples of eulogies.

You only get one shot at this, so some final points to remember are that a personalized message is more important than getting grammer, etc correct, and that you are doing this for your loved one, so do not be afraid to say what you feel is important, or of any emotion throughout it - that is what you are there for, to celebrate the life of the person.

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