Sample Commemorative Speech

Dear graduates, faculty, parents, and esteemed guests,

We've gathered here today to commemorate, the egress of one class and ushering in of another to these hallowed halls of Grosse Pointe North High School via a graduation ceremony. However, it is more applicably a death, than a graduation. Please, lend me your ears, so as to stiffen the morbid conjecture that is immersing itself within your minds at this very moment. For you see, in the days of yore, when Norsemen still roamed this earth, they believed irrevocably in the notion of death as the ultimate triumph of an assailed human body and spirit; not as a catalyst of immense dread and anxiety. Yet, many of the individuals present on this field would indubitably remonstrate this ideology
The most recent January 2nd marked 10 years since the incident and I was listening to Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon album. At one point during the album, the band employeed the soaring voice instrumental music of Clare Torry, whose vocals were meant to resemble wailing and screams, indicating the horrorific experience of dying. Towards the end of the track, Torry whispered "I never said I was frightened of dying. (allusion)" It was in that instant the most valuable axiom that can be learned, in my opinion, had been conjured in my brain. The thorns and briars of the world can wound a person both mortally and spiritually, but only if it's for fear of death the individual wails, not if the individual wails in death (chiasmus). For those who readily accept their demise without acknowledging the price they'll pay haven't truly appreciated life, and can't enter Valhalla. We've all encountered are own arduous obstacles, we've all circumvented our frustrations into tears, we've all struggled to remedy our dilemmas, almost always with the assitance of our valkyries (being our relatives, teachers, counselors, and administrators whom have provided guidance), and we've all repined after our entrance into Valhalla (parallel