I've had a few eulogical (fake word?) moments with my parents already, and while they're tremendously hard to accomplish, it also feels great to completely cut through the bullshit everyone once in a while. Nothing avoided, nothing ignored, just straight up back-and-forth. I'm sure if you talk to them enough and it's not all small talk that opportunities will arise. I personally hate the idea of eulogies, and if I'm asked to do one (which I most likely will be), I'm not quite sure what I'll do. It will probably not be what everyone would expect, and possibly not what most people want either.
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
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