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
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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.