Netizen Kiam Sou Pek posted accuse main media for elderly suicide rates going up:
Shame Shame Shame on you. if all this truth..why the suicide stood to this level its does..is because the Mainstream media stopped doing it job.
Instead of being the watchdog of the government the Media became its lapdog .. the Media ..Shame on you..please do your job ..STOP ●..(■ ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL POLITICS) here. instead of being part of the Solution for Singapore Singaporeans.
the Media became part of the problems..what kind of Media ..please says something lah Singapore Singaporeans Democracy.
Other netizens comment the other way round
“Staying at home not much to do also quite boring. Sticking around with the same elderly old folks talking about all the same old same old is kinda repetitive. Social interactions, Light non routine, work and low pressure work can be fairly uplifting for most ppl. Especially it involves passing some skills to a younger generation”
Some commented it is because of foreign labour
“You bring in so many hundreds of younh foreigners yet you say the older workers must be employed what joke. Just look at the Japanese culture many olds are employed.”
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