Funeral speech
Funeral speech generally stands for oral or written appraisal of a deceased. One differentiates:
- Funeral speech , also funeral speech , mostly given orally
- Necrology and obituary , usually a written appraisal with a description of the curriculum vitae
Historical forms of funeral speech are:
- Elogium , grave inscription for a deceased in prose or epigram
- Epitaphios logos , funeral oration in ancient Greece
- Laudation funebris , public funeral oration in Roman antiquity
- Funeral sermon , a Protestant form of the necrology
