VER-XIV-0013
“I used AI to write a eulogy for someone I loved and it felt wrong.”
It felt wrong because it was someone else's words about someone only you truly knew. There are places where AI can help and places where your own voice — broken, imperfect, raw — is the only voice that matters. A eulogy is not a document. It's a final act of love. The struggle to find the words IS the tribute. Let it be hard.
Your Practice
Close the AI. Sit with a blank page. Write one memory — the most specific one. The way they laughed, the thing they always said, the moment you knew you loved them. Start there. It doesn't have to be polished. It has to be true. That's what the room needs to hear — not eloquence. You.
The Architects
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
— Thomas Campbell