Eulogy

A eulogy is a funeral oration[?] given in tribute to a person or people who have recently died.

Eulogies should not be confused with elegies, which are poems written in tribute to the dead; nor with obituaries[?], which are published biographies recounting the lives of those who have recently died; nor with obsequies[?], which refer generally to the rituals surrounding funerals.

Some historically notable eulogies include:

• Eulogy for St Basil of Cæsarea, by St Gregory of Nyssa
• Fictional eulogy for Julius Cæsar by Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar
• Jacques-Benigne Bossuet's eulogy for Henrietta-Maria Stuart[?]
• Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• Abraham Lincoln's eulogy for Henry Clay
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's eulogy for Henry David Thoreau
• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eulogy for the martyred children of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
• Ossie Davis[?]'s eulogy for Malcolm X
• Earl Charles Spencer[?]'s eulogy for Princess Diana