Dr Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, has died at the age of 69, four years after she was diagnosed with a rare, degenerative brain disease.
Her death was disclosed by her younger brother Lee Hsien Yang in a Facebook post at 5.50am on Oct 9. He said she died at home, and that details of the funeral arrangements will be announced soon.“She was fiercely loyal to friends, sympathised instinctively with the underdog, and would mobilise actively to do something when she saw unfairness, or suspected wrongdoing,” he added.
I'm currently in Laos for the ASEAN Summit and just heard the sad news of the passing of Dr Lee Wei Ling. I did not...SM Lee said his sister had expounded her views “trenchantly and vividly” in her column in The Sunday Times. She had said then: “My immediate reaction to the news was “忍”, or ‘endure’ in Chinese, of which the traditional character has a knife above a heart. I have been practising “忍” since I was in Chinese school, recognising that life has many unpleasant, unavoidable situations.
Dr Lee, then 23, receiving her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with honours at the Singapore Conference Hall. She topped her medical class of 1978. PHOTO: ST FILE Dr Lee loved animals, especially dogs, and wanted to become a vet, SM Lee recounted. But after being dissuaded by their parents, she took up medicine instead, topping her class at the University of Singapore – now the National University of Singapore – before becoming a paediatric neurologist, specialising in epilepsy.
“She kept a watchful eye on their well-being as they grew older. She supervised our mother’s care after her strokes. She took care of my father, too, who was himself growing older and frailer even as he looked after our mother, and especially after she died in 2010,” he added.
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