Assisted suicide in contemporary entertainment: ‘Me Before You’

Recently, I thought I would revisit the movie Me Before You and explore the messages it communicates about life.

Fearfully and wonderfully made – Celebrating the beginnings of human life

Read about the conference proceedings and watch videos of the presentations.

End of life matters – the funeral

In this article, I’ll briefly respond to a number of questions about funerals. I’ll give my opinion as a relatively experienced pastor of the LCA (ordained in 1997), and I’ll also quote from the commentary on the funeral rite from the Church Rites of the Lutheran Church of Australia.

Pandemic raises concerns about links between vaccination and abortion

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, people around the world have been hoping for a vaccine.

Chesterton and the tragic mystery of suicide

One of the sad surprises that confronted me as an undertaker’s assistant—working with the police at the start of the coronial process—was the frequency of suicide, especially male suicide.

A good death: statement on the provision of high-quality end-of-life care

Death is part of our existence. Dying well is an important part of what it means to flourish as individuals and communities. We maintain that so-called ‘voluntary assisted dying’ (assisted suicide) is not dying well.

South Australian Abortion Law Reform Bill 2018

On 5 December 2018, the Greens introduced a radical abortion law reform bill into our South Australian parliament.