What makes a good funeral and How to Write a Eulogy

A good funeral balances grief and gladness. We have grief, that the person is gone and gladness that the person was here. Half of the memorial time should be sobbing; the other half laughing. Or at least tearing up and also smiling. Why not school all speakers in the 50/50 rule? They won’t listen but at least you will know you tried. You set a reasonable and achievable objective by which to measure, both a life and a memorial of a life.

By the way, a funeral is a service about death, which emphasizes one person’s death; a memorial is the…