# Words you don't want to appear in your eulogy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735 "2003-08-21T18:12:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/21 "2003-08-21T20:13:04Z")
gruesomely prolonged excruciating ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/22 "2003-08-21T20:13:32Z")
eviscerated illuminati giant squid holepunch unidentifiable American Idol “viva la resistance” brutalized ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/23 "2003-08-21T20:16:12Z")
nothosonomia (my favorite silly word) defenestrate (my second favorite) ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/24 "2003-08-21T20:19:04Z")
Boner. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/25 "2003-08-21T20:28:30Z")
Unidentified. Missed potential. Scandalous. Notorious. “front page of the New York Post” ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/26 "2003-08-21T20:28:45Z")
God ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/27 "2003-08-21T20:31:29Z")
burned beyond recognition disemboweled smarmy little git pink tutu Monica Lewinsky ---
**Author:** ![Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Age_Quod_Agis)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/28 "2003-08-21T20:43:40Z")
flesh-eating not euthanized Uday/Qusay ahomosezwhat Oedipal married Rosanne Barr “. . . in limerick form . . .” spanking interpretive dance Suge Knight ass pubes ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/29 "2003-08-21T20:47:28Z")
whiff ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/30 "2003-08-21T20:47:37Z")
Mangled Plethora High speed shredder Unprecedented ---
**Author:** ![ForgottenLore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@ForgottenLore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForgottenLore)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/31 "2003-08-21T20:48:00Z")
died young slaphappy dental records ---
**Author:** ![ForgottenLore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@ForgottenLore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForgottenLore)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/32 "2003-08-21T20:50:46Z")
Oh yeah, and “never recovered” ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/33 "2003-08-21T21:02:59Z")
Seriously – “passed” or “passed away”. I’m DEAD, dammit. Use the word DEAD. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/34 "2003-08-21T21:25:48Z")
Forgettable Empty room Loathed Strangely hilarious Lingering Still missing Bits and pieces Rotted Gory Malpractice ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/35 "2003-08-21T21:38:31Z")
_ **Gotcha ya!** _ ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/36 "2003-08-21T23:51:28Z")
“debt-free” ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/37 "2003-08-22T00:06:06Z")
“Well, I had this eulogy prepared, but I feel kindof funny giving a speech to just two people…” ---
**Author:** ![CharlesW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@CharlesW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharlesW)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/38 "2003-08-22T02:57:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackclaw \* > \*\* > I can’t believe we lost him. Who puts wheels on a casket anyway? \*\* I would laugh myself to death if this was in my eulogy. Can’t you see a casket (open of course) rolling down a hill, through the middle of town, and into the middle of a large parade where it gets caught on one of the floats, and is dragged the entire way? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/39 "2003-08-22T03:34:52Z")
**Charles** , I have a picture in my mind of a Benny Hill skit with that manic kazzoo music. Priceless! ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-dont-want-to-appear-in-your-eulogy/196735/40 "2003-08-22T03:39:44Z")
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