We have gathered here today to bid adieu to the soon-to-be dearly departed. They were dearly and they are about to be departed. We will see them again soon, but until that time, it’s not goodbye, but it is a fond farewell. Rest in peace, my friends. Until next year.
Eulogies are always hard. To deliver, to write, to hear, to read, to accept. There’s the finality of it all. The knowing that the single existence of the subject of the eulogy is over, done, fin — hurts.
