I need to write a commemorative speech for my speech class and I have never seen or heard a commemorative speech. Please Help!!!I was hopeing to...

As you have figured out, a commemorative speech honors a
person or event. It is often given on the anniversary of the event (such as Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address speech) or sometimes at an event held to honor a person. In your
case, your speech must commemorate someone that was once in your life, but no longer is,
and you say that you don't have such a person in your life. So, how about choosing to
write about some famous person that has died. Even though you may not have known this
person personally, you can still commemorate him or her for the contribution he or she
made to society. For example, in 2009, Edward Kennedy died. You could write a speech
commemorating his contributions to American society. If you do some research, you can
find out about these contributions and write a pretty powerful speech, I would
imagine.

In 2008, Michael DeBakey died. He was a pioneering
cardiovascular surgeon that made huge contributions to heart surgery. You could write
about him. Or, you could go back further in time and choose a famous person that you
admire and write a commemorative speech about that
person.

If you search online for "people who died in ____"
and plug in a year, you will find lists of people that died in any given year. Perhaps
someone in that list is one that you admired, and you will have your subject. Perhaps
you admire a famous musician or actor who has died. What would you do if you could spend
one last day with that person?

Next, you can write about
what one thing you would do with this person if you could bring him or her back to life
for one more day. Was there something in the person's life that was left unfinished when
they died? Perhaps this will help.