Table of Contents
(96 Pages)

Preface
   The reasons this book was written (Click here to read.)

Introduction
What A Eulogy Should Accomplish
How To Use This Book
   1. If you must write quickly (see shortcuts ** below)
   2. If you have some time.

Getting Started
   Gathering Your Thoughts
   How To Outline By Clustering (Mind Mapping)

What To Write About
   ** Questions That Evoke Thoughts and Feelings

Writing The First Draft
   Starting The Creative Flow
   How To Begin A Eulogy
   The "List Eulogy"
   The "Letter Eulogy"
   ** Helpful Phrases
   How To End A Eulogy

Editing And Polishing

Sample Eulogies (16) --for inspiration and a good read
• Mohandas Gandhi, 1948
• John F. Kennedy, 1963 (4)
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1994
• Yitzhak Rabin, 1995 (3)
• Princess Diana, 1997
• Mother Theresa, 1997
• Four Written by the Author (for grandfather, grandmother, father, friend)

Poems For Memorial Services (30)
including pieces by Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and Kahil Gibran

The Healing Power of Writing
This chapter goes beyond eulogies to show you how therapeutic writing can be.

The Living Eulogy
It's a shame people don't hear our praise before they die. Consider a Living Eulogy.

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