No one suggested it this week - and I couldn't find the film clip for it - but, my favorite eulogy scene is from The Sessions, the story of a man with significant physical challenges (John Hawkes as Mark) who decides he'd really like to know about sex, experience sex, before he eventually dies. He hires a sex therapist, Cheryl (Helen Hunt) to help him figure it all out. I like the eulogy scene in The Sessions not only for it's great speech, but because the scene is still doing work! In the church, Cheryl sits with her husband Josh (Adam Arkin) - a husband who, generally, had no problem with her work, but sensed that there was something different, personal, dangerous to his relationship with his wife, in this particular client. As the priest talks about love, and how Mark considered himself so lucky to have known love, including physical love, there's this moment when Josh really gets to see how special this guy was - and what a special thing his wife helped him accomplish. Mark, empowered by knowledge and new emotions, would go on to have a complete relationship with someone else. It's a great film - and the eulogy scene is no different, packed with quiet visual moments that are bumped up by the great dialogue delivered by the often-conflicted Father Brendan, played by William H. Macy. INT. CHURCH. DAY 169 Father Brendan delivers a eulogy. We see members of Mark's FAMILY, all teary-eyed. FATHER BRENDAN (TO MARK) Mark, I know you're watching. I’m sorry, my friend, but we have to do this. Just bear with me, and I think you might like it. FATHER BRENDAN (TO THE CONGREGATION) (CONT’D) I've been branching out lately, reading Native American stories about the character of the trickster. Sometimes he shows up as a coyote, sometimes as a raven, but he always does the unexpected. The trickster breaks the rules. Mark O'Brien, whose life we're celebrating today, was very much the trickster -- anyone who knew him knew that. Besides his irreverent humor and alarming honesty, he always did the unexpected. In nearly every aspect of his life, Mark did the unexpected. His was a dynamic voice in a paralyzed body, a full life lived long after he should have been dead. He graduated from college, wrote and published articles and poems, and -- against all odds, by his own admission -- entered into the fully human experience of physical love. In this way, Mark lived from day to day to day, from breath to breath to breath, for 49 years. He loved, and he was loved and in his quiet voice, he spoke loud truths.

I, too, loved that scene from "Sessions". Thanks for posting.