Harry Lee Kuan Yew says he wants a quick death
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Singapore's Lee says he wants quick death
SINGAPORE - Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who will turn 90 next month, said in a new book published Tuesday that he feels weaker by the day and wants a quick death.
SINGAPORE - Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who will turn 90 next month, said in a new book published Tuesday that he feels weaker by the day and wants a quick death.
“Some time back, I had an Advanced Medical Directive (AMD) done which says that if I have to be fed by a tube, and it is unlikely that I would ever be able to recover and walk about, my doctors are to remove the tube and allow me to make a quick exit,” he wrote in the book “One Man’s View of the World”.
The book is dedicated to the Asian statesman’s views on international affairs but an entire chapter contains his musings on death, religion and other personal issues.
The 400-page work is dedicated to his late wife Kwa Geok Choo, whose death in 2010 shattered the normally stoic veteran politician.
Lee has visibly weakened since then and revealed in the book that despite daily exercise and a disciplined lifestyle, “with every passing day I am physically less energetic and less active.”
“There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach,” he wrote.
Lee, a British-trained lawyer who served as Singapore’s prime minister for three decades and turned it into a high-tech industrial and financial centre, expressed his blunt views on religion in the book.
“I wouldn’t call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God,” he said.
“So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God — nor deny that there could be one.”
Asked where he drew comfort from if not from religion, he said: “It is the end of any aches and pains and suffering.
So I hope the end will come quickly.”
Elsewhere in the book, Lee addressed what he considers the biggest long-term threat to Singapore — its low birth rate — and rejected as “absurd” suggestions that his population programme in the 1970s urging couple to stop at two children contributed to the current situation.
Despite a slew of so-called “baby bonuses” to encourage couples to have children, Singapore’s total fertility rate last year stood at 1.20 children per woman, far below the 2.1 needed to maintain the native-born population.
Lee, who retired from politics in 2011, blamed Singaporeans’ changing lifestyles for the problem and said monetary incentives would only have a “marginal effect” on it.
“I have given the job to another generation of leaders. Hopefully, they or their successors will eventually find a way out,” said Lee, who handed power to his deputy Goh Chok Tong in 1990 after 31 years in office.
Lee’s son, Lee Hsien Loong, is now prime minister after succeeding Goh in 2004.
Singapore’s low birth rate has forced the government to open the country to foreigners, who now comprise a third of the population.
The influx, however, has sparked protests from citizens and prompted the government to tighten immigration flows in recent years.
Lee pointed to the example of Japan, which he said is on a “stroll into mediocrity” as the ranks of its elderly swell due to young couples not producing enough babies.
Japan’s reluctance to open up to immigrants will further lead to its decline, he said.
“If I were a young Japanese and I could speak English, I would probably choose to emigrate,” said Lee. - AFP
sad that he didn't choose to stay in Britain in 1940s, since he likes the anglo saxons and english so much.
Last time I want harry Lee Kuan Yew to die, he didn't die, now I want harry Lee Kuan Yew to fight with Chee Soon Juan in 2016 elections he says he want to die. fuck you lah peranakan harry Lee Kuan Yew.
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err, who doesnt want?
u wanna suffer then die?
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Elsewhere in the book, Lee addressed what he considers the biggest long-term threat to Singapore — its low birth rate — and rejected as “absurd” suggestions that his population programme in the 1970s urging couple to stop at two children contributed to the current situation.
Hey, you bastard Harry Lee Kuan Yew, don't be so fucking shameless and stubborn lah.
Your 'stop at 2' garbage contributed to the current population problem lah. So fucking shameless, refuse to admit his rubbish policies was at fault.
You think you god ar, everything correct, everything not at fault. You can fuck off and rot in hell lah, mother fucking bastard.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Hey, you bastard Harry Lee Kuan Yew, don't be so fucking shameless and stubborn lah.
Your 'stop at 2' garbage contributed to the current population problem lah. So fucking shameless, refuse to admit his rubbish policies was at fault.
You think you god ar, everything correct, everything not at fault. You can fuck off and rot in hell lah, mother fucking bastard.
quote for evidence
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That bastard Harry Lee Kuan Yew better live until 2016 to fight with Chee soon Juan. Don't give me fucking excuses what feeling old and weak. Last time he said even if he is in coffin he will also jump out and intervene if something goes wrong. Now he wants to die and avoid the 2016 elections.
Not so easy, mother fucker peranakan Harry Lee Kuan Yew.
Now 2016 elections, he feels scared, want to fucking die and avoid. Cheap and easy!
Not that easy Harry Lee Kuan Yew.
Not that mother fucking easy for you.