Sixth body found in Bedok Reservoir

It has become a watery graveyard! The reservoir used to be bustling with activities every weekend, now there seems to be an eerie silence hanging over the whole place when I passed it on my way home last weekent! So sad!

Are the water still safe after so many dead corpses had soaked in the reservoir???

Sixth suicides in months. Something is very wrong in our society. Will the relelvant authourity look into it?

Govt. already warned of bad economy coming our way.
When you increase the population, it's like a family growing bigger.
If you are rich, fine. If we're poor & you don't hv enough jobs for all or there're biasness,
the society will be like a dysfunctioning family, then we're in deep trouble.
Still want to hv a bigger population ?
Greedy huh...more suicides on the way....
who to blame ?

I thought we have some social workers around looking into of the well being of our people? Instead of conducting survey on how much we know about the role of EP, save the resource PLEASE, study how people walk towards no return route?

Our social workers organization and institution failed!!!!

the way to measure singapore quality of life is to count number of people committing suicide and not measuring GDP growth.
so is our quality of life getting better? OBVIOUSLY NO!!!!

Early this week, I was with a taxi driver moving along Mandai road. According to him, there was a body found early this year in Seletar Reservoir that was not publish on news.

there seems to be a pattern now : when the night chinese papers reported in a big way with big photos and big words, about prayers for that mother & kid, the next day one old lady in red committed suicide there. just the day before, the night chinese paper splashed headlines on the paranormal activity investigation at the reservor, and promptly, this chinese man committed suicide. these are copycat suicides triggered after reading from the papers. go on and report somemore in big photos and big words. many of the profiles of people who read these night chinese papers are most likely people who already wanted to commit suicide. the news paper reports just helped them to do it right away. DON'T REPORT IN HEADLINES, AND DONT KEEP COUNTING ! TO THE NIGHT CHINESE PAPERS : for gooness sake, help prevent more suicides.

I think Incredible Tales can now make a show out of Bedok Reservoir.

Regarding putting up signs at Bedok Reservoir, a sign with a message of hope and encouragement, plus a support group hotline number would be more effective

SG got it first again. Suicide hub.

First, mrt. Now reservoir.

Today is very much different from the olden days when people always said you can restart all over again upon failure. Today, many individuals are alike the current big banks which made wrongfully bets and loses millions and billions of monies... too big to fail. When these individuals fail, such as being bankrupted from a failed business venture, they lose all they have, which are very difficult to recover even if they put in double the efforts. The amount loss is deemed too big to lose. Look at todays property prices.. some HDB units are even fast approaching the 1 million dollar marks. If interest rate suddenly increased to 5%, you can't imagine how many people will default on their mortgage loans and lose their home. For the commoner, how many lives you have to earn back that 1 million dollar which you have just lose? Hence it is not difficult to imagine these people will try to take the short cut out to end their misery.

The group of past 55 who could not draw their CPF is one likely group to end up in BR. Do you think Singapore suicide rate is confined to BR only? Do Singaporeans know how many old people commit suicide by jumping down highrise flat every year because they either can not pay their debts, no food to eat or terminately ill could not afford the expensive treatments?

My previous office security guard could not pay his debt, one night drank himself drank and jumped. My friend's mother who was diagnosed with cancer could not afford the expensive treatment jumped. I am a little bit lucky because I belong to the group who can withdraw our CPF after 55 otherwise I am one queuing up at BR too. Because no one want to employ us?

These people must have faced the dead end liow. You think it is easy to commit suicide? Have you ever? You may say the are cowards. Try going up to a highest building and look down. Your legs will be weak already. Try going under the water for as long as you can. Your lungs is going to explode. Try cutting a little on your hand, dont talk about wrist, you will not as it is painful.And etc....
you will chicken out, but these guys who have done it is of total lost. At that last minute,their mind is zero, no pain and fear at all. . ( I am of one them before but was saved in time )

Finland: population 5.3 million; New Zealand: 4.1; Norway: 4.5 ; Denmark: 5.5 million.... If these A list countries can do well , why can't Singapore do equally well? Aiming for 6 to 8 million is counter productive for an island as small as Singapore.  It will just make us so overcrowded and stressed, that social cohesion, graciousness, greeneries, happiness index will be sacrificed. Do we want more deaths?

Sad.....
1) Is there any statistic, reasons for suicides ... gambling debt, family affairs, love affair etc ?
2) Is the police stepping up regular patrol ?
3) Is local authority setting up safety precautions?

Education hub??? look at the numbers of incidents of private schools cheating the foreign students!!!

is singapore a good place to live,even foreigners commit suicide.i want to ask this government,why our suicide rate is so high,lots of people have depression,mental illness.wake up pap,singaporean are living with stress.

Chua, you are a disgrace. Do you really think that if this was indeed a suicide, then the person actually purposely come all the way to that particular reservoir just to prove a point? It's just accessible I imagine. And if what you said was true, you'd think there would be some note somewhere right?

Plus, what is the more likely cause for one to end one's life? Abject poverty from high cost of living and gambling debts or just that one's property was devalued slightly? Is there even any real evidence that LTK CAUSED any devaluations? Is there any devaluations in the first place?

So going by your asinine and virtually non existent logic, the person killed himself just because his neighborhood was just slightly or moderately looking less lovely or slightly devaluated from before?

By implying such ridiculous assumptions, you're not only looking foolish, but have mocked the seriousness of the situation. Are you that heartless as not to understand that the high cost of living cannot be borne by everyone equally and that this pushes some already vulnerable to the edge? Or are you no better than a mindless bot who posts again and again without reflection?

Why is it that everyone wants to die @ bedok reservior?