3rd case in a month: Man dies in sleep

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3rd case in a month: Man dies in sleep

By Theresa Tan

A THIRD case of an apparently healthy young man dying in his sleep – in less than a month – struck on Monday.
Mr Soh Chee Yong, 25, a store manager, had failed to wake up to meet a friend. Aside from nursing a cold, the trim bachelor had no known ailments and exercised regularly.

In fact, he was careful about what he ate and shunned soft drinks and fried food, his elder brother Chee Wei, 29, told The Straits Times yesterday.

He was neither a smoker nor a drinker, and his blood pressure was normal, his brother added.

His mother, Madam Yu Yue Xiang, 52, a hawker, said her youngest son had a blocked nose days before he died, but it seemed to be nothing serious.

‘He didn’t see a doctor and was well enough to go to work,’ said Madam Yu. On Monday morning, she had woken him up as she usually did.

He told her sleepily it was his day off and went back to sleep, after saying he would go to Kusu island later that morning to pray with a friend.

But he failed to meet his friend as had been arranged.

Worried, the friend called Mr Soh’s home. No one picked up the call until late afternoon. It was then that Mr Soh’s step-father found his son’s lifeless body.

Said Mr Soh’s brother Chee Wei: ‘We are all devastated. He died so suddenly, just like that.’

The cause of Mr Soh’s death has not been determined.

On Oct 24, student Danil Shagimardanov, 16, died in his sleep of cardio-respiratory failure.

Three days later, Dr Christopher Lim, 35, died suddenly. The father of four apparently had a seizure in the early morning hours.

[Anonymous]

Agree, we should never take life for granted. But the young man was a health conscious person, and I think he never took his life for granted.

I think the real lesson learnt in this topic, is that we should live life to the fullest, with no regrets. Becos Death doesn’t make appointments, he just comes. And if we make sure we live a full life, at the very least, when death comes suddenly, we can be sure of little regrets.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of the case in the past, where foreign workers were dying mysteriously. Apparently there was a virus going on, if im not wrong.

I think that was a few years back.

[Anonymous]

TODAY ONLINE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Another sudden death, it is a doctor again

General practitioner who died is the fourth person in a month to die in his sleep here.

Loh Chee Kong (cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg)

THE room on the third floor at Singapore Casket was filled with doctors — people who know better than anyone that death is part and parcel of life, and that it can strike anyone, even the seemingly healthy, in their sleep.
.
But that knowledge didn’t make it any easier for these doctors to accept the death of Dr Toh Wei Keong — their 32-year-old friend and colleague, who on Friday became the fourth person in a month here to die in his sleep.
.
The general practitioner was also the second doctor among the four. The first was Dr Christopher Lim, 35, who died from an apparent seizure in his sleep barely a month ago.
.
Said Dr Hoe Wan Sin, Dr Toh’s former classmate and wife of his closest friend in medical school: “The fact that we are all doctors makes this even harder to take. We have so much technical knowledge, yet we can’t explain it. I tried to share whatever I know with (Dr Toh’s) wife but … I don’t think it makes a difference.”
.
Dr Hoe, who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, had rushed down to the hospital morgue with her husband upon hearing the news. “The last thing you would expect is to find your friend in a drawer in the mortuary where you are working,” she said.

A preliminary post-mortem gave Dr Toh’s cause of death to be “cardio-respiratory failure, pending further investigations”.
.
The full autopsy results will be out in a month, but Dr Toh’s wife, Madam Tiina Ong, is not expecting any closure even then as the memory of her trying to wake him up keeps playing in her mind.
.
“His body was still warm although his hands and feet were cold. He wasn’t breathing and I tried to shake him a bit … It was just like he was sleeping. But he wouldn’t wake up,” she said.
.
Dr Toh was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, after doctors failed to resuscitate him.
.
Mdm Ong, 32, who is in the advertising General practitioner who died is the fourth person in a month to die in his sleep here

Loh Chee Kong
cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg

THE room on the third floor at Singapore Casket was filled with doctors — people who know better than anyone that death is part and parcel of life, and that it can strike anyone, even the seemingly healthy, in their sleep.
.
But that knowledge didn’t make it any easier for these doctors to accept the death of Dr Toh Wei Keong — their 32-year-old friend and colleague, who on Friday became the fourth person in a month here to die in his sleep.
.
The general practitioner was also the second doctor among the four. The first was Dr Christopher Lim, 35, who died from an apparent seizure in his sleep barely a month ago.
.
Said Dr Hoe Wan Sin, Dr Toh’s former classmate and wife of his closest friend in medical school: “The fact that we are all doctors makes this even harder to take. We have so much technical knowledge, yet we can’t explain it. I tried to share whatever I know with (Dr Toh’s) wife but … I don’t think it makes a difference.”
.
Dr Hoe, who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, had rushed down to the hospital morgue with her husband upon hearing the news. “The last thing you would expect is to find your friend in a drawer in the mortuary where you are working,” she said.
.
A preliminary post-mortem gave Dr Toh’s cause of death to be “cardio-respiratory failure, pending further investigations”.
.
The full autopsy results will be out in a month, but Dr Toh’s wife, Madam Tiina Ong, is not expecting any closure even then as the memory of her trying to wake him up keeps playing in her mind.
.
“His body was still warm although his hands and feet were cold. He wasn’t breathing and I tried to shake him a bit … It was just like he was sleeping. But he wouldn’t wake up,” she said.
.
Dr Toh was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, after doctors failed to resuscitate him.
.
Mdm Ong, 32, who is in the advertising and marketing line, got to know her late husband when they were both students at the National University of Singapore. The couple’s sixth wedding anniversary would have been this Friday and they were planning to start a family next year.
.
“I try not to cry … But I still can’t accept it happened,” she told Today.
.
“The memory of me trying frantically to wake him up is still so vivid.”
.
Her husband would work 15-hour days at the Sengkang clinic he set up two years ago, although recently his days had become busier after he started a second clinic.
.
But he was a fit and healthy young man, said Mdm Ong. “He was very particular about his diet. He used to exercise regularly but had not been doing so of late due to work. There were no signs at all this would happen.”
.
Dr Hoe’s husband Dr Khoo Chong Kiat, a registrar at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology Division who had spent his army and university days together with Dr Toh, typed out a two-page letter paying tribute to his “great friend” that he distributed at the wake.
.
Recalling how he “broke down like mad” at the mortuary, Dr Khoo wrote: “Someone once told me he was such a likeable doctor that patients, after spending five minutes with him, would definitely go back to him for the next visit. He was also very kind by nature and often gave a discount for old folks who could not pay up in full.”

Indeed, some of those at the wake yesterday were his patients.
.
One of them, financial adviser Kelvin Ng, said: “He was very approachable and he really listened. He was our family doctor. My kids really liked him.”
.
Mr Ng added that Dr Toh would call them up to check on his children’s condition whenever they were ill.
.
According to the National Heart Centre, between 2001 and 2003, about 300 people aged between 18 and 60 died suddenly each year. Most deaths were caused by cardiovascular conditions. Three per cent had no known cause.
.
Besides the two doctors, a 16-year-old student and a 25-year-old store manager also died in their sleep on Oct 24 and Nov 13 respectively.

General practitioner who died is the fourth person in a month to die in his sleep here

Loh Chee Kong
cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg

THE room on the third floor at Singapore Casket was filled with doctors — people who know better than anyone that death is part and parcel of life, and that it can strike anyone, even the seemingly healthy, in their sleep.
.
But that knowledge didn’t make it any easier for these doctors to accept the death of Dr Toh Wei Keong — their 32-year-old friend and colleague, who on Friday became the fourth person in a month here to die in his sleep.
.
The general practitioner was also the second doctor among the four. The first was Dr Christopher Lim, 35, who died from an apparent seizure in his sleep barely a month ago.
.
Said Dr Hoe Wan Sin, Dr Toh’s former classmate and wife of his closest friend in medical school: “The fact that we are all doctors makes this even harder to take. We have so much technical knowledge, yet we can’t explain it. I tried to share whatever I know with (Dr Toh’s) wife but … I don’t think it makes a difference.”
.
Dr Hoe, who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, had rushed down to the hospital morgue with her husband upon hearing the news. “The last thing you would expect is to find your friend in a drawer in the mortuary where you are working,” she said.
.
A preliminary post-mortem gave Dr Toh’s cause of death to be “cardio-respiratory failure, pending further investigations”.
.
The full autopsy results will be out in a month, but Dr Toh’s wife, Madam Tiina Ong, is not expecting any closure even then as the memory of her trying to wake him up keeps playing in her mind.
.
“His body was still warm although his hands and feet were cold. He wasn’t breathing and I tried to shake him a bit … It was just like he was sleeping. But he wouldn’t wake up,” she said.
.
Dr Toh was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, after doctors failed to resuscitate him.
.
Mdm Ong, 32, who is in the advertising and marketing line, got to know her late husband when they were both students at the National University of Singapore. The couple’s sixth wedding anniversary would have been this Friday and they were planning to start a family next year.
.
“I try not to cry … But I still can’t accept it happened,” she told Today.
.
“The memory of me trying frantically to wake him up is still so vivid.”
.
Her husband would work 15-hour days at the Sengkang clinic he set up two years ago, although recently his days had become busier after he started a second clinic.
.
But he was a fit and healthy young man, said Mdm Ong. “He was very particular about his diet. He used to exercise regularly but had not been doing so of late due to work. There were no signs at all this would happen.”
.
Dr Hoe’s husband Dr Khoo Chong Kiat, a registrar at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology Division who had spent his army and university days together with Dr Toh, typed out a two-page letter paying tribute to his “great friend” that he distributed at the wake.
.
Recalling how he “broke down like mad” at the mortuary, Dr Khoo wrote: “Someone once told me he was such a likeable doctor that patients, after spending five minutes with him, would definitely go back to him for the next visit. He was also very kind by nature and often gave a discount for old folks who could not pay up in full.”
.
Indeed, some of those at the wake yesterday were his patients.
.
One of them, financial adviser Kelvin Ng, said: “He was very approachable and he really listened. He was our family doctor. My kids really liked him.”
.
Mr Ng added that Dr Toh would call them up to check on his children’s condition whenever they were ill.
.
According to the National Heart Centre, between 2001 and 2003, about 300 people aged between 18 and 60 died suddenly each year. Most deaths were caused by cardiovascular conditions. Three per cent had no known cause.
.
Besides the two doctors, a 16-year-old student and a 25-year-old store manager also died in their sleep on Oct 24 and Nov 13 respectively.

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STI Home > Singapore > Story

3rd case in a month: Man dies in sleep

By Theresa Tan

A THIRD case of an apparently healthy young man dying in his sleep – in less than a month – struck on Monday.
Mr Soh Chee Yong, 25, a store manager, had failed to wake up to meet a friend. Aside from nursing a cold, the trim bachelor had no known ailments and exercised regularly.

In fact, he was careful about what he ate and shunned soft drinks and fried food, his elder brother Chee Wei, 29, told The Straits Times yesterday.

He was neither a smoker nor a drinker, and his blood pressure was normal, his brother added.

His mother, Madam Yu Yue Xiang, 52, a hawker, said her youngest son had a blocked nose days before he died, but it seemed to be nothing serious.

‘He didn’t see a doctor and was well enough to go to work,’ said Madam Yu. On Monday morning, she had woken him up as she usually did.

He told her sleepily it was his day off and went back to sleep, after saying he would go to Kusu island later that morning to pray with a friend.

But he failed to meet his friend as had been arranged.

Worried, the friend called Mr Soh’s home. No one picked up the call until late afternoon. It was then that Mr Soh’s step-father found his son’s lifeless body.

Said Mr Soh’s brother Chee Wei: ‘We are all devastated. He died so suddenly, just like that.’

The cause of Mr Soh’s death has not been determined.

On Oct 24, student Danil Shagimardanov, 16, died in his sleep of cardio-respiratory failure.

Three days later, Dr Christopher Lim, 35, died suddenly. The father of four apparently had a seizure in the early morning hours.

[Anonymous]

Agree, we should never take life for granted. But the young man was a health conscious person, and I think he never took his life for granted.

I think the real lesson learnt in this topic, is that we should live life to the fullest, with no regrets. Becos Death doesn’t make appointments, he just comes. And if we make sure we live a full life, at the very least, when death comes suddenly, we can be sure of little regrets.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of the case in the past, where foreign workers were dying mysteriously. Apparently there was a virus going on, if im not wrong.

I think that was a few years back.

[Anonymous]

TODAY ONLINE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Another sudden death, it is a doctor again

General practitioner who died is the fourth person in a month to die in his sleep here.

Loh Chee Kong (cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg)

THE room on the third floor at Singapore Casket was filled with doctors — people who know better than anyone that death is part and parcel of life, and that it can strike anyone, even the seemingly healthy, in their sleep.
.
But that knowledge didn’t make it any easier for these doctors to accept the death of Dr Toh Wei Keong — their 32-year-old friend and colleague, who on Friday became the fourth person in a month here to die in his sleep.
.
The general practitioner was also the second doctor among the four. The first was Dr Christopher Lim, 35, who died from an apparent seizure in his sleep barely a month ago.
.
Said Dr Hoe Wan Sin, Dr Toh’s former classmate and wife of his closest friend in medical school: “The fact that we are all doctors makes this even harder to take. We have so much technical knowledge, yet we can’t explain it. I tried to share whatever I know with (Dr Toh’s) wife but … I don’t think it makes a difference.”
.
Dr Hoe, who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, had rushed down to the hospital morgue with her husband upon hearing the news. “The last thing you would expect is to find your friend in a drawer in the mortuary where you are working,” she said.

A preliminary post-mortem gave Dr Toh’s cause of death to be “cardio-respiratory failure, pending further investigations”.
.
The full autopsy results will be out in a month, but Dr Toh’s wife, Madam Tiina Ong, is not expecting any closure even then as the memory of her trying to wake him up keeps playing in her mind.
.
“His body was still warm although his hands and feet were cold. He wasn’t breathing and I tried to shake him a bit … It was just like he was sleeping. But he wouldn’t wake up,” she said.
.
Dr Toh was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, after doctors failed to resuscitate him.
.
Mdm Ong, 32, who is in the advertising General practitioner who died is the fourth person in a month to die in his sleep here

Loh Chee Kong
cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg

THE room on the third floor at Singapore Casket was filled with doctors — people who know better than anyone that death is part and parcel of life, and that it can strike anyone, even the seemingly healthy, in their sleep.
.
But that knowledge didn’t make it any easier for these doctors to accept the death of Dr Toh Wei Keong — their 32-year-old friend and colleague, who on Friday became the fourth person in a month here to die in his sleep.
.
The general practitioner was also the second doctor among the four. The first was Dr Christopher Lim, 35, who died from an apparent seizure in his sleep barely a month ago.
.
Said Dr Hoe Wan Sin, Dr Toh’s former classmate and wife of his closest friend in medical school: “The fact that we are all doctors makes this even harder to take. We have so much technical knowledge, yet we can’t explain it. I tried to share whatever I know with (Dr Toh’s) wife but … I don’t think it makes a difference.”
.
Dr Hoe, who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, had rushed down to the hospital morgue with her husband upon hearing the news. “The last thing you would expect is to find your friend in a drawer in the mortuary where you are working,” she said.
.
A preliminary post-mortem gave Dr Toh’s cause of death to be “cardio-respiratory failure, pending further investigations”.
.
The full autopsy results will be out in a month, but Dr Toh’s wife, Madam Tiina Ong, is not expecting any closure even then as the memory of her trying to wake him up keeps playing in her mind.
.
“His body was still warm although his hands and feet were cold. He wasn’t breathing and I tried to shake him a bit … It was just like he was sleeping. But he wouldn’t wake up,” she said.
.
Dr Toh was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, after doctors failed to resuscitate him.
.
Mdm Ong, 32, who is in the advertising and marketing line, got to know her late husband when they were both students at the National University of Singapore. The couple’s sixth wedding anniversary would have been this Friday and they were planning to start a family next year.
.
“I try not to cry … But I still can’t accept it happened,” she told Today.
.
“The memory of me trying frantically to wake him up is still so vivid.”
.
Her husband would work 15-hour days at the Sengkang clinic he set up two years ago, although recently his days had become busier after he started a second clinic.
.
But he was a fit and healthy young man, said Mdm Ong. “He was very particular about his diet. He used to exercise regularly but had not been doing so of late due to work. There were no signs at all this would happen.”
.
Dr Hoe’s husband Dr Khoo Chong Kiat, a registrar at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology Division who had spent his army and university days together with Dr Toh, typed out a two-page letter paying tribute to his “great friend” that he distributed at the wake.
.
Recalling how he “broke down like mad” at the mortuary, Dr Khoo wrote: “Someone once told me he was such a likeable doctor that patients, after spending five minutes with him, would definitely go back to him for the next visit. He was also very kind by nature and often gave a discount for old folks who could not pay up in full.”

Indeed, some of those at the wake yesterday were his patients.
.
One of them, financial adviser Kelvin Ng, said: “He was very approachable and he really listened. He was our family doctor. My kids really liked him.”
.
Mr Ng added that Dr Toh would call them up to check on his children’s condition whenever they were ill.
.
According to the National Heart Centre, between 2001 and 2003, about 300 people aged between 18 and 60 died suddenly each year. Most deaths were caused by cardiovascular conditions. Three per cent had no known cause.
.
Besides the two doctors, a 16-year-old student and a 25-year-old store manager also died in their sleep on Oct 24 and Nov 13 respectively.

General practitioner who died is the fourth person in a month to die in his sleep here

Loh Chee Kong
cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg

THE room on the third floor at Singapore Casket was filled with doctors — people who know better than anyone that death is part and parcel of life, and that it can strike anyone, even the seemingly healthy, in their sleep.
.
But that knowledge didn’t make it any easier for these doctors to accept the death of Dr Toh Wei Keong — their 32-year-old friend and colleague, who on Friday became the fourth person in a month here to die in his sleep.
.
The general practitioner was also the second doctor among the four. The first was Dr Christopher Lim, 35, who died from an apparent seizure in his sleep barely a month ago.
.
Said Dr Hoe Wan Sin, Dr Toh’s former classmate and wife of his closest friend in medical school: “The fact that we are all doctors makes this even harder to take. We have so much technical knowledge, yet we can’t explain it. I tried to share whatever I know with (Dr Toh’s) wife but … I don’t think it makes a difference.”
.
Dr Hoe, who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, had rushed down to the hospital morgue with her husband upon hearing the news. “The last thing you would expect is to find your friend in a drawer in the mortuary where you are working,” she said.
.
A preliminary post-mortem gave Dr Toh’s cause of death to be “cardio-respiratory failure, pending further investigations”.
.
The full autopsy results will be out in a month, but Dr Toh’s wife, Madam Tiina Ong, is not expecting any closure even then as the memory of her trying to wake him up keeps playing in her mind.
.
“His body was still warm although his hands and feet were cold. He wasn’t breathing and I tried to shake him a bit … It was just like he was sleeping. But he wouldn’t wake up,” she said.
.
Dr Toh was pronounced dead at the hospital about an hour later, after doctors failed to resuscitate him.
.
Mdm Ong, 32, who is in the advertising and marketing line, got to know her late husband when they were both students at the National University of Singapore. The couple’s sixth wedding anniversary would have been this Friday and they were planning to start a family next year.
.
“I try not to cry … But I still can’t accept it happened,” she told Today.
.
“The memory of me trying frantically to wake him up is still so vivid.”
.
Her husband would work 15-hour days at the Sengkang clinic he set up two years ago, although recently his days had become busier after he started a second clinic.
.
But he was a fit and healthy young man, said Mdm Ong. “He was very particular about his diet. He used to exercise regularly but had not been doing so of late due to work. There were no signs at all this would happen.”
.
Dr Hoe’s husband Dr Khoo Chong Kiat, a registrar at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology Division who had spent his army and university days together with Dr Toh, typed out a two-page letter paying tribute to his “great friend” that he distributed at the wake.
.
Recalling how he “broke down like mad” at the mortuary, Dr Khoo wrote: “Someone once told me he was such a likeable doctor that patients, after spending five minutes with him, would definitely go back to him for the next visit. He was also very kind by nature and often gave a discount for old folks who could not pay up in full.”
.
Indeed, some of those at the wake yesterday were his patients.
.
One of them, financial adviser Kelvin Ng, said: “He was very approachable and he really listened. He was our family doctor. My kids really liked him.”
.
Mr Ng added that Dr Toh would call them up to check on his children’s condition whenever they were ill.
.
According to the National Heart Centre, between 2001 and 2003, about 300 people aged between 18 and 60 died suddenly each year. Most deaths were caused by cardiovascular conditions. Three per cent had no known cause.
.
Besides the two doctors, a 16-year-old student and a 25-year-old store manager also died in their sleep on Oct 24 and Nov 13 respectively.

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