Abstract
Abstract The funeral is the only ritual worldwide that is bestowed upon almost all humans, irrespective of their denomination. For this reason, eulogies remain vital even in a post-denominational context. Due to the mediatisation of culture, eulogies constitute an area of interpretative authority that is rhetorically, politically, and medially relevant, as selected eulogies document: first of all, a speech delivered by the German President Frank Walter Steinmeier on the occasion of a state ceremony held in honour of the victims during the Covid-19 pandemic; second, a speech on the occasion of the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk that was initially not intended to be given but eventually delivered by the Russian President Vladimir Putin; finally, an eulogy by the theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, delivered on the occasion of the funeral obsequies for his son Nathanael, who died as an infant.
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