Eulogy

See Eulogy (film) for the 2004 film.

A eulogy is a funeral oration given in tribute to a person or people who have recently died. It can also praise a living person or people who are still alive, which normally takes place on special occasions like birthdays etc.

Eulogies should not be confused with elegies, which are poems written in tribute to the dead; nor with obituaries, which are published biographies recounting the lives of those who have recently died; nor with obsequies, which refer generally to the rituals surrounding funerals.

Historically notable eulogies

Eulogy for St Basil of Cæsarea, by St Gregory of Nyssa
Fictional eulogy for Julius Cæsar by Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet's eulogy for Henrietta-Maria Stuart
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln's eulogy for Henry Clay
Ralph Waldo Emerson's eulogy for Henry David Thoreau
Patrick Pearse's eulogy for Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Dave Dennis' eulogy for James Chaney
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eulogy for the children of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Ossie Davis' eulogy for Malcolm X
Ted Kennedy's eulogy for Robert Kennedy
The Earl Spencer's eulogy for Diana, Princess of Wales
John Cleese's eulogy for fellow Monty Python member Graham Chapman.
Jimmy Carter's eulogy for Mattie Stepanek
Cher's eulogy for Sonny Bono

The book 'Farewell, Godspeed: The Greatest Eulogies of Our Time' features a collection of well known eulogies that have been delivered for American icons, from Martin Luther King to Bette Davis, Helen Keller to Lucille Ball.

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