The writing helpers: obituary, eulogy and welcome remarks

What these three screens do #

Writing about someone you have just lost is hard, and a blank page is harder. Three screens in the planner will put words down for you to work from:

• Draft the obituary — the notice.
• Write the eulogy — the piece read aloud at the service.
• Write the welcome / MC remarks — what the host says at the start of the day.

Each asks you a few things first, then drafts from what you gave it.

What the AI does, and what it does not #

Every one of the three screens says the same sentence, and it is worth reading twice:

This draft is generated with AI from the details you provide.

And under the finished draft:

This is a draft to personalize — please read it over, make it your own, and rehearse it aloud before the day. It is general assistance, not legal or medical advice.

So, plainly:

• It is a first draft, not a finished piece. No person has read it.
• Nothing in it has been checked. Dates, names, spellings, relationships — you are the one who knows those, and you should read the draft against what you know.
• It only knows what you told it. It does not look anything up.
• The words become yours the moment you edit them, and editing them is the expected thing to do, not a sign anything went wrong.

If you would rather not use a draft at all, you can write your own in the same box. Nothing in the plan depends on having used the helper.

Drafting the obituary #

Draft the obituary goes through a few short steps — Who they were, Their life, Family, Tone, Anything else, then Review & generate. The page says it plainly: answer only what you want to, every step can be skipped, and you can come back whenever you like.

It produces two pieces of writing, because families usually need both:

• a short notice, the kind newspapers charge for by the line, and
• a fuller life story for sharing, printing and reading.

From there you can Download both as a PDF, Save to the plan, or Copy to clipboard. Saving puts the drafts into your plan so they appear in the documents later. There is also Write this one again if you would like a different attempt at either piece.

The eulogy #

Write the eulogy asks a little about the person, then Generate draft. Edit the text freely in the box, use Save to the plan when you are happy with it, and Copy to clipboard if you would rather work in your own document.

Once saved, you will see Saved — it will appear in the funeral plan PDF.

The welcome and MC remarks #

Write the welcome / MC remarks is the host's spoken opening — a welcome, thanks for coming, and a lead-in to the service. Same three controls: Generate draft, Save to the plan, Copy to clipboard.

If someone else is hosting, this is a good thing to send them early so they can put it in their own words.

If a draft does not come back #

You may see Couldn't draft the eulogy. Please try again. or Couldn't reach the drafting service. Please try again. Nothing you typed is lost. Wait a moment and press the button again. If it keeps happening, you can write the piece yourself in the same box and save it the same way — the plan does not treat that any differently.

Where to go next #

What you end up with shows where each of these drafts appears in the finished documents.