The number of eulogies by friends and family is soaring.
Co-written by Robbie Williams, "Requiem" is effectively a wake, a dead spirit hearing eulogies from friends.
In a short eulogy, a friend called St. Jean "a sportsman and a sport".
News of D'aja's death spread quickly online, and a Facebook page established in her memory drew short, informal eulogies from friends, some who knew her as Asia, as well as from strangers.
And after he died last December, a memorial service at the home included photographs he had uploaded to MyWay, excerpts from memoirs he had posted and eulogies from friends he had made through the site.
" The Smoking Diaries have followed, building over three volumes of free association into something that seems more than a mere journal, finding room for detailed portraits of his family and childhood among the immediate jottings, the comic riffs and the eulogies to friends he's loved and lost.
Afterwards, he was remembered as "a man of buoyant joviality, with a rough and ready wit, laughter and genuine humility and honesty, clearly innocent of pretense and [pretension]." His funeral was held at Narberth's St. Margaret Roman Catholic Church and Monsignor Cornelius P. Brennan delivered the eulogy, as close friends and admirers attended the mass.
After the eulogy, invite the friends and family to come forward and share their own thoughts.
In San Diego, we each gave the eulogies for our friends.
After Untold Stories (2005) comes this book, with a similar mix of talks, prefaces, programme notes, eulogies for dead friends and other fugitive pieces.
