Rise of Elderly Cardboard 'Exercising', How long they want to Live? SOYLENT GREEN option please

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"He says he will eat one meal a day usually and in the morning a nearby stall will give him free kopi. He drinks from the tap regularly to quench his thirst and will fill up a water bottle."

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Singapore ― A 72-year-old man living in a hawker centre only eats one meal a day – a bowl of S$1 porridge.
As part of activist Gilbert Goh’s initiative to help displace elderly Singaporeans, the elderly man was given S$50 to tide him over.
In a Facebook post on Sunday (Sept 26), the money the elderly man was given is part of the $100 homeless support scheme he will be given over a one-year period.
Mr Goh wrote that, when speaking to the man, said that he sleeps on a bench together with others who also take shelter there in the night. “He is rather unclear on how he ends up in the street at his advanced age”, Mr Goh wrote. The man also said that someone in his fifties passed away two months ago at about the same spot where he sleeps.
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“He says he will eat one meal a day usually and in the morning a nearby stall will give him free kopi. He drinks from the tap regularly to quench his thirst and will fill up a water bottle.
As he has a weak tummy, he could (sic) only eat porridge where he can buy at $1 a bowl at a nearby stall.”, Mr Goh wrote. The man said that he planned to use some of the money given by Mr Goh to get himself a haircut and shave.
In July this year, Goh encountered an elderly woman whom he called probably our saddest rough sleeper case so far.”
In a Facebook post on Sunday (Jul 25), Mr Goh wrote about and shared the photos of the auntie, whom he said “cut a pitiful spectacle” during the homeless outreach he and his team conducted the day before.
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They met the woman, who survives by collecting and selling used tins, as she was pushing her trolley.
The auntie has many health issues, as can be gleaned from his post. He said that some volunteers even had to help her change her adult diapers.

“WE HAVE TO HELP HER STAND UP SO THAT SHE CAN CHANGED HER PAMPERS AT THE NEARBY TIOLET ALL THE WHILE HOLDING HER HANDS AS SHE AMBLED SLOWLY ALONG.”

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Soylent Green...it's FOR people.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07...to-death-and-having-a-plan-for-dying/10014582

 

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A very touching article...it is not about death... but to leave this world in peace..

https://mothership.sg/2021/11/hospice-volunteer/

 

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Soylent Green is here. Soylent Green, its for people.

 

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As usual...the powers that be making mountains out of molehills

https://www.news.com.au/national/ns...t/news-story/d5889563e68be0537a3ce339e8ea90f8

 

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Taxi driver shares pitiful sight of elderly woman picking up cardboard boxes on CNY Eve, says 'this just breaks my heart' - Singapore News
“it’s 7pm on the eve of Chinese New Year and seeing this just breaks my heart,” the taxi driver said.

SINGAPORE — A taxi driver, Ghazali M Sadip, shared a picture of an elderly woman collecting cardboard boxes on the eve of Chinese New Year at Bukit Merah Central. He said on Facebook, “it’s 7pm on the eve of Chinese New Year and seeing this just breaks my heart.”

Most Chinese consider the reunion dinner the most important part of the Chinese New Year celebration. The Reunion Dinner is an annual feast where family members reaffirm the love and respect that binds them together as a unit. It is also known as tuanyuan (or weilu) to mean “gathering around the family hearth.” This event is of sociological significance as it is a means to ensure the solidarity of the family and its cohesiveness. It is unclear if the elderly women had anyone to celebrate Reunion Dinner with on Chinese New Year.

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Nafiz Kamarudin, leader of a community group, Happy People Helping People, said a few years ago that the number of elderly cardboard box collectors seems to have grown in Singapore. His group provides monthly meal vouchers and provisions for elderly box collectors struggling to get by.

Speaking to The Pride, Nafiz felt that the ageing population and outsourcing of low-wage jobs to foreigners were contributing factors.

He said: “Most of (the elderly) are financially unstable because they don’t have jobs. There are those who have children, but unfortunately, Singapore’s cost of living is very high, and some are not earning enough to support their elderly. So these elderlies will find ways to make their own living.”

In responding to a question by Singapore Democratic Chairman, Dr Paul Tambyah, at the Singapore Perspectives 2023 conference organized by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said that the majority of workers in Singapore want to work longer, as long as they are healthy.

Dr Tambyah has asked if the Silver Support scheme could be more universal to avoid a huge drop in income when they stop working. The scheme provides lower-income senior citizens with a quarterly cash payout during their retirement.

He touched on the age of retirement in Singapore and asked, “Would anyone actually want to be operated on by a 70-year-old neurosurgeon? Or ride in a bus driven by a 70-year-old bus driver?”

He added, “The basis of this question is the narrative seems to be that we need to keep working. And if we are unable to do a particular job, we’ve got to retrain.”

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Even the bloody Nips have gone woke... Why eliminate such a good policy? It minimises the suffering on the next generation....dumb asses