How to Write Your Own Eulogy – and Use It to Design Your Life
Most people avoid thinking about their own death. That avoidance comes at a cost.
When we don’t face the end, we drift through the middle.
This course invites you to do something quietly radical:
to write your own eulogy while you are still alive, and then to use it as a clear, humane guide for how to live.
This is not about morbidity or self-help platitudes. It is a practical, reflective process grounded in one simple insight I’ve learned from years of listening at the edge of life:
Eulogies are not fantasies. They are verdicts.
They tell the truth about what mattered, what endured, and what people actually experienced of us.
What This Course Is (and Is Not)
This is not a productivity system, a bucket-list exercise, or a motivational hype loop.
It is a sober, compassionate way of clarifying your values by asking the only question that really cuts through the noise:
If your life were finished as it is now, what would honestly be said?
From that clarity, change becomes simpler. Not easy. But simpler.
What You’ll Do
Over the course, you will be gently guided to:
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Write your own eulogy – without sentimentality or self-deception
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Identify the themes, patterns, and absences that emerge
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Distinguish between reputation, performance, and genuine contribution
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Translate your eulogy into a Rule of Life you can actually live by
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Design a life oriented around meaning rather than approval
You are not asked to judge yourself harshly. You are asked to be honest.
What You’ll Learn
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Why death is one of the most reliable tools for life design
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How eulogies reveal values more truthfully than goals ever do
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The difference between being busy and being useful
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How to stop living according to inherited scripts that no longer fit
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How to align your time, energy, and relationships with what will last
Who This Is For
This course is for people who:
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Feel a quiet unease that life is being lived on autopilot
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Are entering midlife or a significant transition
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Have outgrown old beliefs but still want depth and coherence
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Are tired of chasing optimisation and want orientation instead
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Want a credible, non-religious way of asking “How should I live?”
It is especially suited to thoughtful, reflective people who value meaning over performance.
What You’ll Come Away With
By the end of the course, you will have:
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A completed personal eulogy (for your eyes only)
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A clear set of lived values grounded in reality, not aspiration
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A practical framework for decision-making
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A calmer relationship with mortality
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A life direction that feels chosen rather than inherited
A Final Word
Writing your own eulogy does not make you morbid.
It makes you precise.
When you know what you want to be remembered for, you stop wasting time pretending to be someone else.
This course won’t tell you who to be.
It will help you see, with unusual clarity, who you already are becoming – and whether that is a life you are willing to stand behind.
