Life & Death

Life & Death

When it rains, it pours: How does one survive the loss of a loved one and COVID?

27-year-old Wiki Tay took her last breath just 6 months after a lung cancer diagnosis. After flying back from the UK for the funeral, her husband Gershon, 37, found himself in hospital fighting...

Worldview

What do we want to see at the end of our lives?

A recent conversation with a colleague got me thinking about life. She shared that her good friend recently passed away. As a responsible educator, this person devoted much of himself to work, often...

Life & Death

COVID-19 and the pit of despair: Death, mourning and the morning after

I wept. I don’t know about you, but when I read the news that two people in Singapore – one elderly, one a foreigner – had succumbed to COVID-19, I cried. Driving down the expressway,...

Life & Death

Singapore COVID-19 deaths: The one article we never wanted to publish

I’m heartbroken because we have been praying for weeks now that we wouldn’t ever have to publish something like this in our COVID-19 coverage. Yet today we must, because we owe it to our God to...

Mental Health

Living with survivor’s guilt and other lessons from my friends’ suicides

I was 17 that year. One night, my mum came rushing into my room and said my art teacher needed to speak with me urgently on the phone. The next words I heard on the phone were not what I expected at...

Mental Health

When suffering doesn’t make sense

In July, I received some bad news from relatives in Taiwan about my cousin. Her cancer had returned and, this time, it was terminal. I was shocked to hear the news, since I had just recently seen her...

COVID-19

“Death cannot separate us”: A son’s eulogy for his mum who died from the coronavirus

Between heaven and earth, the Lord reigns forever. “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,”...

Real Life, Real People

Mama Xue: The woman from Wuhan who received Christ on her deathbed

Family members of Mama Xue, brothers and sisters of our church, greetings to you. The past week has been tumultuous for everyone. While we were distressed about what is happening in China and around...

Real Life, Real People

“Until we meet again”: Zachary Lee’s eulogy for his son, little Emme

Where do we even begin? It’s hard to say something about someone you’ve spent so little time with, yet it seems like forever since we’ve known and fallen in love with our son. So I’m...