It is such a privilege to be asked to speak at anyone’s funeral. I had spoken at many friends and relations funerals before realising this vocation in my retirement. They tell me sixty in the new forty. Try telling that to my knees as I alight nimbly from a chair.
Life is full of funny moments and in any celebration of a life well lived, there will be much to laugh and smile about. This may be tempered with great sadness at life's circumstances or a life cut cruelly short, but I believe a funeral celebration should focus on all that was positive and good about a person. It will be these moments that those left behind will want to cherish to allow their memory to live on.