DePaul Soccer Player Honored in Moving Eulogy After Death at Age 20

DePaul Soccer Player Honored in Moving Eulogy After Death at Age 20

Just over a week after DePaul soccer player Chase Stegall’s death at age 20, family and friends remembered him at a celebration of life held Wednesday, June 11, in Atlanta. “Chase was the most joyful and kind guy that I had ever met,” his best friend, Jordan Clagette, said in his eulogy. “I can’t think of any situation in which Chase was thinking about the downside of anything,” he added. “It’s what made him the shining light in any dark room. M…

I Write Eulogies, Not Tragedies

“‘I wanted to get your number. When I go, will you do mine?’” This is what Alex Taylor heard numerous times after giving a successful eulogy at his grandmother’s funeral: People wanted him to write theirs. And so began a bizarre side hustle as an eulogy writer, or “trading in tributes,” as Taylor puts it. But, upon meeting the blind brother of a deceased man, he realizes that familial bonds can be “stronger and deeper than any arrangement of adj…