[sinkspur]

Liturgy is worship and sacrifice, not therapy.

A eulogy before the committal rite, Romulus.

The liturgy of sacrifice and worship is, by then, essentially over.

[Romulus]

Being essentially an act of communal prayer, committal also is liturgy, even if not sacramental. It's altogether unfitting to interrupt prayers for mercy with the insertion of what're essentially commercials, commending the dear departed to the faithful as moral example, and lobbying God to do His duty toward the late Great Guy.

Eulogies are a protestant phenomenon; they derive from pietist views of the Christian life as moral culture. That they subvert the Catholic ecclesial understanding of life-in-communion is the greatest argument to resist eulogies.

If there must be one at all, the proper place for a eulogy is at the wake.

[ninenot]

before the committal rite

That would be at the cemetery, then. Or maybe in the car on the way???