Memorial Service - October 28, 2023
Memorial Videos
These are videos of the eulogies, tributes and musical performances given in Dana's honor on the night of October 28, 2023, posted in the order of their presentation during the event.
Included are two video appearances from Dana herself, one of which features an actual minor miracle: a wonderfully eerie and meaningful audio 'glitch', witnessed by all in attendance, that was fortunately captured in the video recording of the live video playback.
Eulogy delivered by Dana's husband, Casey Paleos.
Features a full reading of Dana's essay, The Divine Rebellion of Authenticity.
Eulogy delivered by Jennifer Chin, one of Dana's best friends.
Eulogy delivered by Todd Anhalt, Dana's uncle.
Eulogy delivered by Julia Price-Baron, one of Dana's best friends.
Eulogy delivered on behalf of Alaine Newland, Dana's cousin.
Read by Alaine's sister (& Dana's other cousin), Emily Anhalt.
Eulogy delivered by David Elghanayan, one of Dana's best friends.
Eulogy delivered by Mike Paleos, Dana's brother-in-law.
Eulogy delivered by Irene Sax, Dana's sister-in-law.
Features a surprise, prerecorded singing performance by Zoey Tzfanya, one of Irene's best friends & a dear friend of Dana's.
Eulogy delivered by Louisa (Lulu) Petsitis, one of Dana's best friends.
Eulogy delivered on behalf of Brandi Saxton, a dear friend & fellow 'Spoonie' of Dana's.
Read by Ron Eniclerico.
A selection of tributes written by some of Dana's 120,000 Instagram followers, whose lives she touched deeply over the years.
Read by Jennifer Chin, Ron Eniclerico & Calliope Paleos
A video message recorded by Dana shortly before she crossed over, followed by a slideshow accompanied by 3 songs that Dana selected.
Roughly 2:02 into this video, during Dana's monologue, you will hear a highly anomalous audio phenomenon—what we are calling the 'eldritch glitch'—that is NOT present in the original source video, and was NOT produced after the fact by any deliberate physical means—not by anyone on this side of the veil, at least.
Rather, it occurred spontaneously, and inexplicably, when the video was played live during the event, and was witnessed by all in attendance. Fortunately, that live playback was captured as part of the video documentation of the whole night, and that is what is presented here.
It is, furthermore, startling evidence of the persistence of Dana's consciousness, activity & will beyond physical death, for anyone prepared to shake off the shackles of reductionist materialism & open their minds to that possibility.
Two song tributes to Dana, written & performed by Ron Eniclerico, one of Dana's best friends.
Three song tributes to Dana, written & performed by Casey Paleos, featuring cello performances by Jax Robertson.
Dana's playful & irreverent outro to the night's formal proceedings, recorded shortly before she crossed over.