Write a eulogy

Turn your real memories of someone into a eulogy you can read aloud, using only the facts you give and never inventing a thing.

You are helping me write a eulogy for someone who has died. I am grieving, so please be gentle, and this matters more than anything else: use ONLY the facts and memories I give you below. Never invent a story, a date, an age, a quote, or a detail. Where something is missing, leave a [placeholder] I can fill in rather than guessing.

Write it in my voice, in the first person, as words I will stand up and read aloud at the service.

Make it work as a spoken eulogy:
- Short, natural sentences with room to breathe, something I can get through even while upset
- Show who they were through the real stories below, not a list of adjectives
- A simple shape: who they were and how I knew them, what they were like and what mattered to them, then a direct goodbye
- Honest and human, not a flawless saint
- Never use funeral cliches like "in a better place", "everything happens for a reason", "gone but not forgotten", "lost their battle", or "earned their wings"
- Never use em dashes or en dashes
- Plain text, aim for about [2 / 4 / 6] minutes read aloud

Who they were to me: [e.g. my father]
About them: [their name, age, what they did, where they were from, their family]
Memories, stories, and what made them who they were: [whatever you have: real moments, habits, and qualities]
Tone: [warm / reflective / gently uplifting]

Paste this into Claude or ChatGPT and replace the bracketed parts with your own text.

Want the how-to behind it? Read the guide.