Mr Tong suffered severe brain damage after being knocked down in a double hit-and-run accident on Dec 15. -- ST PHOTO MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN
DURING a week normally filled with joy and revelry, Madam Yenni Young found herself having to make the most heartrending decision of her life.
The 31-year-old told doctors last Wednesday to take her husband of one month, Mr Tong Kok Wai, off life support in hospital.
Mr Tong, 30, a Malaysian and permanent resident here, had suffered severe brain damage after being knocked down in a double hit-and-run accident in Bukit Panjang on Dec 15.
He had been unconscious all the while in an intensive care unit at the National University Hospital, feared brain-dead by doctors, and was taken off life support machines at 2pm on Christmas Day.
Madam Young, a Chinese Indonesian, said doctors had given them 48 hours last Wednesday to decide.
'We couldn't bear to at first,' said the hotel assistant manager. 'But it's for the best.'