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Kate Halfpenny Regular columnist October 3, 2025 — 11.14am

Ages ago my mate Veronica and I hatched a business idea we still talk about: filming people delivering their own eulogies, then stashing them at our HQ until the eventual funeral.

The business had the catchy name, “If You Are Hearing This I Must Be Dead”, because that’s how clients would kick off their spiels. Then they could hail beloveds, talk themselves up, call out enemies, whatever they wanted to get off their chests.

Our own lives got in the way of us cashing in on others’ deaths, but the idea of taking control of what’s said about you at your final party has stayed with me. (Melbourne filmmaker Dan Thomas had the same idea – last year he started filming people self-e

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