LiveYourLife

Farewell Speech for Eike Behrendt

Dear Christiane, Dear Lennart, Dear Julia, Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Companions of Eike,

We gather today in this beautiful place on Lake Zug to say farewell to a person with whom we all feel connected in our own way. It is Eike himself who brings us together here today. His life circle closed on February 21, 2026. Eike, who spent a lot of his life concerned with the topic of longevity—what one can do to live healthier and longer. He, who followed many of these practices and encouraged others to do the same, was completely unexpectedly stopped short in the middle of his life by an illness and had to say goodbye to everything he held dear within a few weeks. And we all must say farewell to a person who was important and familiar to us.

‘As long as you love someone, the world is a little brighter, simply because that person exists.’