When you're putting together the eulogy and looking for those stories you can draw from other people too. This is not the time to hire professional speechwriter. You don't want anything professional and artificial. So ask other people about their best memory of this last one. Again, this isn't complicated, but if someone passed away yesterday or two days ago, and the eulogy is tomorrow, either talk to them at the wake or someplace else or call them and just say, Hey, is there anything you can share with about a particular experience you had with grandma or grandpa or whoever it was? And just listen to them?
And then you can use their story. When you're delivering the eulogy. Now you say it's them. You can say and cousin Billy said to me, TJ, I'll never forget the time when grandma told me Write into that story of cousin Billy, it's still going to resonate. It's still going to have impact and that way it's not all about you and just your relationship with the person who passed away you're kind of sharing the spotlight with others. So that's the best source material.
It's not about sitting in front of a typewriter computer to in the morning the night before. It's not about hiring a professional speechwriter. It's just about asking the people who knew this individual the best to share their experiences to share stories about things this person did that meant something to them. So if you don't have enough of your own stories, believe me there are going to be other stories from other family members and loved ones. So all you have to do is ask