Since Singapore is overcrowded, I petition that we ship the low income old Singaporeans to Batam and Bintan.
The living costs there are low and they have a lot of spaces to build nursing homes, morgues and cemeteries; stuff that old people need the most.
Dear Buzzlightyear, your suggestion to send old folks like me to a distant shore and on an unfamiliar terrain, with the hope that old folks like us can perish there is not only a distasteful statement but also very cruel and uncalled for. I really do not know your age, marital or family status, but what your statement clearly shows is that you consider all old people like us as useless, good-for-nothing and un-befitting of any respect. I assume that you also support the fact that old parents should never be cared for by their own progenies or governments.
Buzzlightyear, do always remember that people become poor not because of choice but because of situation, environment and their ability to earn some money. They may have become entrenched in such a pathetic state because of the following:-
1) Situation
The poor people may have worked so hard all their life for the good of their children by sending them to universities, etc. On their return the children get a job, starts a family, has children, pay mortgages and so many other things that they end up seeing their old folks as liabilities. Some of these old folks sadly end up in homes and some just take their own life so as to make their exit fast.
2) Environment
The old folks may belong to a nation that stubbornly believes in a system where everyone has to work and earn for their own up-keep. Our Singapore's PAP government fits well here. All along the PAP leaders have stated that nothing should be free and that there should never be a "crutch-mentality" amongst Singaporeans. Some leaders have even suggested sending old folks to neighbouring countries.
Our leaders even compare countries which has welfare systems (dole, etc..) as complete failures. That is the reason why we find bent old men and women cleaning public toilets and heaving loads of card-boxes to sell to a "Shylock of a karang-guni" at an unbelievable price. They earn a pittance and some of these people have collapsed in exhaustion and even ran down by vehicular traffic.
3) Ability To Earn
Many old folks are suffering from a range of diseases like hypertension, cardio-vascular problems, kidney-stones, rheumatism, diabetes-mellitus and score of other maladies. Due to this, they cannot work properly, let alone concentrate or earn enough to pay for the high fees of medicines. Hence they become un-employed and become a burden to their own children. There have also been many cases of decomposed cadavers found in flats. Some of them resort to traditional witch-doctors for cures and end up worse. The desperate ones take their own lives through suicides in many forms - death fall from high-rise flats, overdose of medications and other forms. I need not say much here as all of you good forrummers knows better.
In a broader sense, your idea of having a retirement village is good and timely. Many first-world countries hve it. Australia is closest to us. In such villages, doctors and nurses are on hand to help. The occupants buy the small homes cheap and reside therein and get along their lives by interacting with other folks. Life goes on and their lives become very meaningful.
Why must we have to send them to Batam, Bintan or other foreign countries when we have so many vacant islands of our own. We can use one of these many islands. Ubin is a good choice. Its close to Changi Hospital and the mainland.If we can have Jurong Island for industries, why not another island as retirement village?
Our old folks have their dignity and pride. So please don't treat them like trash. They have contributed in the development of our nation, maybe in a small way but the fact is that have and hence shuld be accorded all the help by their children and the government.
Let us not forget the hands that once fed us. All of us will eventually grow old too. "He who digs a pit knows not that he or his brother will fall into it" (ancient Bedouin saying).
.I would ask you how old you are but I know you can't count that high. 
