What questions help you write a eulogy?

Ask what they were like in an ordinary week, what they always said, what they were proud of, and one story that could only have happened to them.

How do we collect memories from the whole family?

Send each person a private question link. They answer with a free account, no subscription needed, and every memory, photo and voice recording lands in one archive.

Is it too late if they died years ago?

No. People remember more than they expect once the questions are specific, and the people who knew them are still here to ask.

Questions to remember someone who has died

After a death, everything anyone remembers is held in separate heads. These questions gather it: for a eulogy, for the grandchildren who never met them, or just so the small things are not lost.

Questions about their life

Ask these of everyone who knew them — family, old friends, colleagues. Each person answers a different part.

1.How would you introduce them to someone who never got to meet them?
2.What is the first memory of them that comes to mind?
3.How did they dress when it matters?
4.What did they look like to you when they were happiest?
5.What is the sound of them you still hear — their voice, their laugh, their footsteps?
6.What did it feel like to walk into a room they were in?
7.What were they like at a celebration?
8.What did they always say that the family still repeats?
9.What were they doing the last time you pictured them at their best?
10.What was an ordinary day with them like?
11.What did they avoid?
12.What did they teach you without ever sitting you down to teach it?
13.What did they do for you that you only understood later?
14.What did they worry about that turned out fine?
15.What was their idea of a good day?
16.What made them proud of the people around them?
17.When did you see them at their kindest?
18.When did you see them at their bravest?
19.What would break their heart?
20.What did they find funny that nobody else did?
21.What did they keep that meant more than it looked like it did?
22.What food, song or smell brings them straight back?
23.What is the story about them you tell most often?
24.Where would you go to feel close to them?
25.What did they believe about how people should be treated?
26.What would they had said about the year we have just had?
27.What made them talk for an hour without stopping?
28.How did you come to know them?
29.What were they to you, in your own words?
30.What did they do that changed something for you?
31.What is the closest you have come to falling out for good?
32.What was the first thing people noticed about them?
33.What did they do for other people without being asked?
34.What did they care about most?
35.Where were they most themselves?
36.What did they find funny?
37.What did they say that you still quote?
38.What did they make possible for someone else?
39.What joke did they tell every single time?
40.What was your favourite time with them?
41.What did they teach you?
42.What did you last say to each other?
43.What would they never let you do?
44.What do you want their family to know about them?
45.What should never be forgotten about them?

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Questions about what they meant to you

These are the personal ones. They are often hard to answer and always worth keeping.

46.What advice of theirs do you still follow?
47.What do you wish they understood about themselves?
48.What did they never get around to, and what would it have meant to them?
49.What did they forgive that you might not have?
50.What did they carry quietly that few people knew about?
51.What was their way of saying goodbye?
52.What is a story about them that must never be lost?
53.What is the funniest thing that ever happened with them?
54.What did they do when someone in the family was struggling?
55.What did they cook that nobody else can make the same way?
56.What made them feel useful?
57.What did they love about their own life?
58.What did they hope for you specifically?
59.What did they say about money, and did they follow it?
60.What do you wish you had asked them?
61.What do you wish you had told them?
62.What of them do you see in yourself?
63.What did they say near the end that you still think about?
64.What of them do you see in the younger people in the family?
65.What do you miss in the most ordinary moments?

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Common questions

What questions help you write a eulogy?: Ask what they were like in an ordinary week, what they always said, what they were proud of, and one story that could only have happened to them.
How do we collect memories from the whole family?: Send each person a private question link. They answer with a free account, no subscription needed, and every memory, photo and voice recording lands in one archive.
Is it too late if they died years ago?: No. People remember more than they expect once the questions are specific, and the people who knew them are still here to ask.