Mother and son found dead in Bedok Reservoir

very sad

red is for revenge

I have been thinking whether to write this for the last 2 days. For the intention that it may help save lives, I am willing to face the music. I think women these days tend to snap pretty fast when things dont go their way. and ending their lives tend to become a common weapon or way of revenge. I see some happening around me in lifetime but starting to see more and more, near or far. Is this a growing trend and will things get worsen? Is it because they are pampered in their upbringing or on the contrast being living in miserable state their whole life? How do government make help easier available? No MP talks about it probably it does not even fall under their checklist of what can be said or what cannot be said. Is Singapore a hotbed of more suicides to come? Someone the other day argued one per day is a low number but he forgot on a per capita basis that is high.

There must be a reason why they were dressed in red. A pretty auspicious color?

we have community centres, neighborhood police posts, RCs, schools, churches and temples. if all come together and do a campaign of adopting or depositing these kids, maybe we see fewer such cases in future.

they always found body in reservoir ,so it means the reservoir is already not safe,,they can just throw anything in there.

"The woman FULLY DRESSED IN RED and the son in red shirt and white pants".....What does this signify??

Chinese believes, when suicide is committed dressed red is for revenge purpose. whoever caused these two people to commit suicide is in for serious trouble.

Very sat, another 2 life lost, and one is only 3 years old...
Chinese believe someone wear in red and death will come back to take revenge. Not sure truth of not, but I believe the mother must has left the world with hatred.

Sad that one takes own life..Even more when an innocent child's life suddenly cut short due to adults' problem.. Sweet child may you rest in peace in heaven; can't say that abt mother.. She must be very bitter and angry to do such drastic act..May God have mercy on her soul too..

She must be at her wits end and was unable and had no one to help her..............we know is wrong and a sad thing to take our own life, let alone our own flesh and blood - 3 yrs old.....
But we were not in her shoes and would never know and understand what she had gone thru'....let's pray for them. Rest in Peace :(

Sad news.....May god bless them rest in peace.

We have so many so call Help Centers here and there and so many charity shows every now and then but none can do anything more to help.....so now...are we really help those in needs or are we just sitting there waiting for calls to come in.......can't we walk out a bit more to better understand our neighbourhood?

Extremely sad for the lady and the little boy. Whoever caused them so much pain will suffer for it one day, maybe not today but future....... Just wait and see..........

There will be more of this on the way.

Yacob, I agree with you on most part, but IMHO, when men snap, they commit murder or some bloody nose; when women snap they commit suicide and drag their kids along. This is the difference, not because one is better than the other or more than the other. It is perhaps the motherly instinct in them, that if they are not around, no one will love their kids. I think we need to address this human instinct, which has no power to discern what is right or wrong at the moment it is triggered. We need to advocate hope, government needs to do it and their high paying MPs need to also. I am not seeing an"reaching-out" environment in our midst; even from the churches. I am seeing an environment where concerns is about enriching and protecting its own internal group of interest. Everyone adopts "No Publicity then No Money" criteria when assessing help.

something is wrong, every few month we have such cases happen.

It is another very sad day for Singapore. It is even so sad when the poor 3yrs old does not even have a chance and a choice. It is indeed sad.

My neighbour's kid is a fast learner. He failed his class test and he blames the government for it. The reasons he gave are about the same as yahoo comments. No doubt he will grow up to be quite successful.

very very sad news..