Eulogy – A speech at a funeral about the recently deceased
Funeral vocab
Hearse
Grave
Graveyard
Crematorium
Funeral director
Undertaker
Death idioms
Obituaries – Notifications often found in newspapers of someones death. Sometimes they are simply informative, othertimes they contain an extensive biography.
“Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne chose to pass into the eternal love of God.”
“Her last words were ‘tell them that check is in the mail.’”
“Jesus had a backache only the world’s greatest chiropractor could fix.”
“It pains me to admit it, but apparently I have passed away.”
“Bill Brown finally stopped bugging everybody.”
Quotes on death:
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemmingway
“Grief is the price we pay for love” – Queen Elizabeth II
“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time” – Banksy
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone” – Harriet Beecher-Stowe
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish proverb
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five” – Benjamin Franklin
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose” – Steve Jobs
Epitaphs – The writing on a gravestone.
