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Sharon Chen
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March 23, 2015
Lee Kwan Yew, then Singapore's outgoing prime minister, second right, taking his oath of office as senior minister in the new government of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, left, in Singapore, on Nov. 28, 1990. Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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(Bloomberg) -- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first elected prime minister, died in the city-state at the age of 91 on Monday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Lee, the Cambridge University-trained lawyer who led the nation from 1959 to 1990, crafted a legacy of encouraging foreign investment, averting corruption and emphasizing discipline, efficiency and interracial harmony. His elder son, Lee Hsien Loong, has been prime minister since 2004.
“The prime minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore,” the office said in a statement. “Mr. Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3:18 a.m.”
Lee was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the hospital near the city-state’s downtown on Feb. 5 to treat severe pneumonia, where he was sedated and put on mechanical ventilation.
He was diagnosed with sensory peripheral neuropathy at 86, which impaired feeling in his legs, his daughter Lee Wei Ling, former director of the National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore, wrote in a column in the Sunday Times in November 2011. He was hospitalized for an infection in February last year, and had a pacemaker implanted in 2008 to address an irregular heartbeat.
Lee had a lawyer and doctor sign an Advanced Medical Directive saying that if he had to be fed by a tube, and if it was unlikely he would recover and be able to walk, his doctors were to remove the tube and let him make a “quick exit,” he wrote in his 2013 book One Man’s View of the World.
[h=2]Quickly, Painlessly[/h]“There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach,” he wrote.
The elder Lee resigned from Singapore’s cabinet in May 2011 after the ruling party he co-founded -- the People’s Action Party -- won the general election with the smallest margin of the popular vote since independence in 1965.
His son underwent a robot-assisted keyhole surgery on Feb. 16 to treat prostate cancer. The procedure went “very smoothly,” according to a statement on the website of the Prime Minister’s Office, citing surgeon Christopher Cheng, the lead urologist at Singapore General Hospital.
The younger Lee, 63, visited his father on Feb. 21, delaying the traditional Lunar New Year greeting until the third day of the holiday at the advice of doctors treating the two men, he said in a Twitter and Facebook post.
“This was the first year in a long while that we could not attend the Lee family reunion dinner,” he said in the post.
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