Topic: Death

The Rev. Stomberg and the Rev. Galloway discuss the dignity and value of human life, and how our end-of-life arrangements can serve as a Gospel witness. The discussion also covers assisted suicide, burials, funerals, living wills, caring for sick and dying relatives, and more.

Our earthly lives are fleeting, and most people have great difficulty with that – a lament which is echoed by the author of Ecclesiastes. To cope with our mortality, so many of us resort to vanity – pride in our own achievements or appearance, and devoting our lives to worthless things. We pile up possessions on earth which we cannot take with us when we die. But our most prized possession should in fact be God. As the famous hymn says, “we are rich in things, but poor in soul.” But as Luke’s Gospel challenges us, we must instead be rich towards God.