Tips for reading a eulogy without caving in?

[JoyceDivision]

Can anyone help?

DF passed away last week after a short illness. We knew it was terminal and were fortunate to be with him when he passed away and have open conversations before he died.

We have written a eulogy that we hope we can read at his funeral.

Other than being flinty hearted, how can we try to prepare and do this without sobbing away and wailing through it?

We're planning to visit him at the chapel of rest, we've been reading it out aloud athome,and if we can read it in churcgh we'll ask the parish priest if we can go into church one eve to read it from the pulpit.

Any other helpful tips?

Hello everyone, just to update and say thank you for all your comments:

We did it! My sibling and I managed to each read out our half of the eulogy, the funeral was a lovely service and very uplifting. As soon as the priest welcomed everyone we went straight up to read...we'd read, read and read again our bits to almost know them off by heart, I couldn't manage to look up while I read as I didn't think I'd last, but we did read it all, had lots of laughs as that's how we wanted people to think of dad.

The priest had read it too, in case we couldn't manage it, and did a brilliant homily that referred back to our eulogy and had lots ofquips in it, but a huge focus on our family and the team that has been mum and dad.

So, thank you everyone x

How lovely for you. Doing yourself proud is good at such a time, as you feel you've done your DF proud too.

So glad the eulogy went well OP and that you feel you did your DF proud.

Well done Joyce