eulogy

Keep a box of tissues close by: I was a blubbering mess two minutes in, when Hanks follows Murray’s cold open with one of the eulogies from Candy’s funeral.

Mourners filled the cemetery forecourt, with many standing outside the prayer hall in the rain, listening to the service and eulogy over loudspeakers.

The religious overtones were unmistakable in Joseph Goebbels’ eulogy:

Not the fact that the president of the United States used a eulogy to divide a fractured nation even further by spewing bile.

The San Francisco Standard reported the event included prayers, eulogies and placards promoting dialogue.