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TRIGGER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE MENTIONS SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE Shortly after his first taste of alcohol at 11, Thomas Koh began using drugs, all the while chasing money and power as antidotes to the...
TRIGGER WARNING This article contains content on death and suicide. Death. It is something that all of us have to face, and yet few of us would want to think about it. Perhaps because it seems so...
I lost my mother to cancer last July. She was only 60. She was first diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer in her adrenal gland in 2012. We were thankful then that the cancer was discovered...
Dad was a high-flyer. Because he built Changi Airport Terminal 3, ours was the first family who actually walked into the terminal. He was also the project director for many other buildings such as...
In 2018, Carole Ann was admitted to hospital due to a sharp abdominal pain. It turned out that a ruptured ovarian cyst had put her in a life-threatening condition. During the month-long coma, her...
Shortly after Ona was born, she was brought to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) when the doctor detected she had breathing issues. They later discovered that she had a cleft palate. It was...
As I sat at SGH’s Block 9 waiting to collect my brother’s body, I couldn’t believe the conversation I was having with the funeral director. “We have coffins in white, brown, black. Which...
About 12 years ago, I was invited to a Christmas party. At the time, I was living overseas, but I was in Singapore for my break and had no Christmas plans. What I didn’t realise was that I’d meet...
In early 2020, friends and strangers alike rejoiced when See Ting, better known as Seets, was declared cancer-free following her mastectomy and the completion of her treatment. She had been diagnosed...