This inspiring video was shared by Bruce Wadd I showed it to my wife who reacted as I did. She cried and said it was beautiful and dignified. Her reactions just like mine. Thank you Bruce so much for sending this. “Wow” indeed! Yes, as I sat watching this, and listening to Philip talking so intelligently and brilliantly and simply about life/death I thought, too, “wouldn’t it be great if we could give everyone this opportunity?” What strikes me is the essence of it all, how life is reduced to telling those nearest us the simplest things. This is totally inspiring....

We live in a society where it is more important to look good than to be good. Universities in Sydney are spending millions on building acquisitions yet teacher salaries and conditions are falling. Most of the news we are presented with reports on people failing to treat each other with respect. It is almost as if trust in humanity has completely broken down, we are happy to invest in anything other than people since we don’t value them. So I think it is important to document evidence that humanity still exists and I find ample evidence for this at funerals....