Just read
dervishspin's
Eulogy post, and it occurs to me that this is the disadvantage of winging it. I didn't actually write mine down -- indeed, I was rewriting it in my head every time I rehearsed it, and what came out was different from any of those practice runs -- so I don't know exactly what I said. (I do know that actually delivering it was the only time I succeeded in getting all the way through it without completely breaking down. Oddly, speaking at full voice seems to have helped.)
I may try to reconstruct it here. Or not -- while it's against my usual instincts, part of me thinks it's better to just let it ethereally drift on the winds...