With the issue of sending elderly parents to nursing homes across the Causeway still fresh in our minds, the thought of having loved ones buried in a faraway foreign land is equally heart-rending and sorrowful… Do we face such acute burial space constraints that we have to consider alternatives thousands of kilometres away?
Jeffrey Law, letter to ST Forum, “Bury our dead overseas? No way”
Since the PAP-led govt is into shipping out our problems…
How about the PAP-led Singapore govt negotiate a pact with Melbourne, Australia to send our 40-and-above unemployed workers over? I’m sure many here would love the chance to be gainfully employed in Melbourne, Australia, then age in old-folks home there, and die and be buried there.
Fat hope – do not even think about it;;;have you not been following the news.
You have no chance to work in Australia if you coming from Singapore and past 40 ?
Seniors to be buried there? …..the likes of Pauline Hanson, John Howards, etc…..will leap out of their graves to haunt and stop you…..they would not like to be buried alongside Asians….
Count your blessings here folks…. try Australia and see what it has for you.
You can send your children there to study if you can afford the gargatuan & inflated fees and cost of living… it is a one way street for almost graduating Singaporeans there.
but for seniors trying to get a one way ticket,,,,,you need to be at least Jacky Chan’s father.
I thought the government sent a delegation to China to negotiate for burial grounds for Singaporeans. Isn’t that is what the YPAP Delgation led by Teo Ser Luck for? Singapore wants migrant Chinese workers and the government is willing to trade our dead for them.
i think rather than bury in foreign, i prefer to scatter my ashes into the sea.
or migrate to other country be their citizen die there and bury there.
two options for me.
scatter ashes into sea is also one way for S’poreans deceased to migrate. hh
Would it not be better if these elderlies apply for PR in Malaysia?
Maybe got more welfare or benefits out of it leh?
Or could also consider to apply citizenship in Malaysia since staying there for the rest of their lives?
Did talents suggest this also?
“Or could also consider to apply citizenship in Malaysia since staying there for the rest of their lives?”
If can, who does not want ?? Can cash out your CPF in no time. The problem is that even with our so-called tip top education, they may not even have a system to call us foreign talent and grant us PR so liberally.
To #2 HE He He on March 23rd, 2009 12.06 pm:
the likes of Pauline Hanson, John Howards, etc…..will leap out of their graves to haunt and stop you…..they would not like to be buried alongside Asians….
Precisely! Only in Singapore opens her doors to all and sundry to enter, thanks to PAP policies. Btw, racism is not that rife on a day-to-day basis in Aussie if one is mixing with the locals. I have seen worse racism in Singapore directed at our migrants and minority races.
You have no chance to work in Australia if you coming from Singapore and past 40 ?
Btw, this is not true. The official cut-off age for Australia is 45. Their Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL) range from tradesmen (e.g. baker, carpenter, cook) to professionals (e.g. architect, engineers, registered nurses).
http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/skilled-occupations/occupations-in-demand.htm
I would recommend that people interested to migrate to check out the details for themselves rather than to give up based on scare-mongering hearsay.