EULOGIES & MEMORIALS
No matter how articulate you are at other times, in a dark moment of devastating loss, your words and ideas get stuck.
After such a loss, in addition to your heart being trampled and your feelings in razor-like free-fall, you have to write a eulogy.
All of your emotions are hopelessly tangled, and the last thing you want to consider is where to find appropriate eulogy ideas that aren’t clichéd. You desperately want to honor the memory of your loved one for the funeral.
How are you supposed to know what to write?
When writing your eulogy speech, the syllables I carefully choose just for you are passionate, poignant, emotional, and exquisitely sensitive. Or, if you prefer, we can make them funny. Sometimes, both. There are no absolutes.
You’re in a time crunch. You’re a CPA… surgeon… mathematician… painter… baker… anything but a professional writer. You panic. Who wouldn’t? It’s time to call in a specialist who knows what to write.
Read Molly’s Writing Samples
I’ll make sure your speech sounds like you, not me.
During our initial call, I gather a bouquet of your feelings. I suggest original ideas and themes, and we decide which ones best reflect your relationship with your loved one. I listen to your love and your pain. I write it down. I cry with you. When appropriate, I write a eulogy of celebration, not just about the hole in your heart.
Will I give the only eulogy speech at this funeral?
Whether there’s one speaker or many, when you’ve been left behind, you ache for one more slow, sweet moment to say goodbye in your own voice. And even though it may be a public event, your original eulogy is still about your unique relationship and love for the person you lost, as you’re trying to say goodbye. Forever.
I have one goal: to do my best work for you at this sensitive time, creating a precious, beautiful document whose words will soothe your heart and your family.
"I’m a professor of English Lit now, published author of 23 short stories plus 17 novels. When Carter died, I could not finish a sentence. I called Molly to write Carter’s eulogy for me. Everybody from 60’s-70’s Rock ‘n Roll was in the room. On that dark, dark day of mourning, Molly’s speech made everyone double over in laughter. Carter would have wanted it that way.” – David Diamond, Former DJ, KHJ, Los Angeles