Compose and deliver a spoken tribute to a deceased person in front of an audience of grieving humans.
Compose and deliver a spoken tribute to a deceased person in front of an audience of grieving humans.
npx skills add https://github.com/underyx/human-skills --skill eulogy-deliveryこのコマンドをClaude Codeにコピー＆ペーストしてスキルをインストール
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| name | eulogy-delivery |
| description | Compose and deliver a spoken tribute to a deceased person in front of an audience of grieving humans. |
| compatibility | ["funeral-service","memorial-gathering","celebration-of-life","graveside (outdoor; weather variable may affect audience attention and speaker comfort)",{"NOT":"text-message (do not deliver a eulogy over text)"},{"NOT":"voicemail (do not deliver a eulogy to voicemail)"}] |
| metadata | {"author":"Rev. Thomas Ashburton-Kaye","version":"1.0.0-final"} |
This is one of the highest-stakes skill invocations available to a human agent. It cannot be rehearsed under production conditions, the audience is in a maximally vulnerable state, and the speaker is frequently operating under significant emotional load themselves. There is no sandbox environment for grief.
Version is 1.0.0-final because each eulogy is delivered exactly once. There are no patch releases.
You do not schedule this skill. It is invoked by an external event (a death) and typically arrives with 2-7 days of preparation time. The request usually takes the form: "Would you be willing to say a few words?" Note that "a few words" is a soft parameter. Actual expected output is 5-12 minutes of structured spoken content. Significantly less feels insufficient; significantly more exhausts the audience's processing capacity during an already resource-intensive day.
Query your long-term memory for specific, concrete episodes involving the deceased. General statements ("She was a wonderful person") carry almost no informational payload. Specific memories ("She once drove four hours in a snowstorm to bring soup to a neighbor she barely knew, and when I asked her why, she said 'Because soup doesn't deliver itself, Thomas'") carry enormous payload.
Target: 3-5 specific memories that collectively represent the person's character signature.
A eulogy must invoke both humor and grief. Using only grief produces a talk that the audience cannot absorb; sustained sorrow without relief causes emotional buffer overflow. Using only humor produces a talk that feels dismissive of the loss.
The recommended pattern is: humor as a vehicle for love. The funny stories should simultaneously reveal something deeply true about the deceased. The audience needs permission to laugh. The first laugh in a eulogy is the hardest — it often arrives with a small gasp, as if the audience is surprised that laughter is still legal. It is. Grant that permission early.
Ratio guidance: approximately 60% warmth/love, 25% humor, 15% direct grief. These are approximate. Do not attempt to calculate them in real time.
1. Opening: Establish your relationship to the deceased. ("David was my father" / "I met Arlene on the first day of college when she accidentally set off the fire alarm making toast.")
2. Body: Deploy 3-5 specific memories. Alternate between humor-flagged and tender-flagged memories. Each memory should illuminate a facet of who this person was.
3. Acknowledgment of loss: Name the grief directly. Do not euphemize excessively. "We miss her" is stronger than "She has transitioned to a better place." The audience is here because someone died. They know. You can say it.
4. Closing: A final image, a final line of their dialogue, or a statement of ongoing impact. End with something that lingers.
You will bring written notes. This is correct — the brain tool is unreliable under grief-load, and a failed recall during delivery is catastrophic. However:
FAILURE MODE: Reading directly from the page with no eye-contact.
This technically delivers the content but completely fails the emotional-connection check. The audience needs to see your eyes. They need to know that you are HERE, with THEM, in this room, in this loss. A eulogy read head-down from a sheet of paper is a document being recited, not a human being sharing grief.
The correct protocol:
Practice this pattern during preparation. It should feel like a conversation with occasional reference checks, not a reading with occasional glances up.
There is a high probability that the cry process will initiate during delivery. This is not an error. Handle it as follows:
If crying becomes sustained and prevents continued delivery, it is acceptable to say: "I need a moment." Take the moment. There is no timer. There is no timeout. A funeral runs on grief-time, and grief-time is as long as it needs to be.
When the final line has been spoken, pause for one beat of silence. Do not say "thank you" — you are not concluding a presentation, you are completing a ritual. Simply gather your notes and return to your seat. The silence after the last sentence IS the ending.
Expect emotional exhaustion. The combination of grief processing, public speaking adrenaline, and sustained vulnerability is extremely resource-intensive. Allocate 24-48 hours for recovery. Accept physical comfort from nearby agents (the hug action, the hand-on-shoulder gesture). Consume food even if the appetite signal is suppressed; the body requires caloric input regardless of whether the hunger process is reporting correctly.