Man fulfills dying wish — to play jackpot at casino
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A Singaporean dying of lung cancer fulfills his last wish– to play the jackpot at a casino (File photo).
Last week, a frail, wheelchair-bound Mr Tan Miah Teck imagined he was playing the jackpot machines while fiddling with buttons for his hospital bed.
He stopped pressing them when his family members told him that the buttons were for the bed.
Two days later, Mr Tan, who was suffering trom the final stages of lung cancer, found himself pressing the actual buttons of the jackpot machines at the casino. He won S$200 and, nine hours later, he died.
The visit to the casino to play the jackpot machine was the 72-year-old Singaporean’s dying wish, according to The New Paper.
And his four children went all out to fulfill it.
Seeking permission from his doctor, they spent about $200 to hire a private ambulance and a private nurse to accompany their father, a retired shipyard worker, to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS).
Last Thursday morning on Dec 2, Mr Tan – who had been to the RWS casino three times since it opened — made his fourth and final trip to the casino. Besides being wheelchair-bound, he had to be hooked to an oxygen tank for the outing.
Said his youngest daughter, Madam Eileen Tan, 40, “My father suffered a relapse three weeks ago and his condition worsened.”
“He went on for chemotherapy but his condition continued to deteriorate day by day.”
Doctors told the family that he had less than three months to live.
It was then that Madam Tan decided she wanted to fulfill whatever wishes her father might have.
She said in Mandarin, “We asked him if there were any places which he would like to go to.”
“He said, ‘there’s nowhere to go, except maybe to Sentosa to play jackpot’.”
And to Sentosa it was.
Accompanied by her mother and sister, Madam Tan said her father was very pleased on the day they took him to RWS. Two other siblings did not make it due to work obligations.
Switching between two jackpot machines, Mr Tan spent about an hour inside the casino and won $200.
Said Madam Tan, “He was very happy. He kept asking us whether he had won or lost money.”
Added Mr Tan’s second daughter, Ms Doreen Tan, 46, “His initial outlay was $50. And at one point, he won up to $300. But then he lost some and ended up with $200.”
“At least he won back the entrance levy that he had to pay for my mother and himself.”
But Mr Tan could not keep up with the game for long.
They left before an hour was up and had the waiting ambulance bring him back to the Singapore General Hospital when he got tired.
About nine hours later, he died.
Said Madam Tan, “I accompanied him at the hospital until about 7pm before going home to bathe. At about 9pm, the hospital staff called. By the time we rushed down to the hospital, it was too late. He had already left us.”
“I didn’t expect him to leave so soon after his wish was granted. I thought he could hang on a little longer.”
But she took consolation in the fact that the family managed to fulfill his last wish.
“At least, we managed to take him there to play the machines. We wanted to do what we could for him,” said Madam Tan.
She added that she was grateful to the RWS staff who facilitated her father’s final visit to the casino.
She said, “They had guards there who paved the way for his wheelchair to pass by. They also cleared a corner in the casino specially for him to play.”
Besides playing the jackpot machines, Mr Tan was also an avid getai fan with a passion for singing Hokkien and Chinese oldies. But his diagnosis with stage three lung cancer two years ago stopped him from delivering his favourite songs.
Source:
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/06/man-fulfills-dying-wish-to-play-jackpot-at-casino/#disqus_thread -
rip.
At least you are now free of any illness and free of pain and sorrow.
rip.
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and on to the next lifetime of suffering.............
aiyoh..........last wish is play jackpot ah.................
at least my last wish is to play Fiona Xie.............or was it to see Lee Kill you die...........???
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i love the jackpots too.
gambling is so enjoyable if you can control yourself.
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difficult leh.............when i gamble and i win...............i can't control leh...............so close to orgasm leh.........
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how can anybody win anything playing jackpot machines? unless it was rigged for the dying man.
no gambler in the right mind would play the slot machines. their difficult setting can be 'adjusted'
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a dying man has a right to his last wish .... but c'mon ... playing jackpot?
not being with his family or being at home or eating chicken rice (strong contender for MY last wish) ... but playing jackpot?
wow .... people STILL surprise me ...
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Originally posted by mrwonderful:
how can anybody win anything playing jackpot machines? unless it was rigged for the dying man.
no gambler in the right mind would play the slot machines. their difficult setting can be 'adjusted'
You can confirm win one. Win a bit lose a lot. And then sometimes heng heng you strike jackpot. LOL.... But 10 bets 9 losses.
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Originally posted by mrwonderful:
how can anybody win anything playing jackpot machines? unless it was rigged for the dying man.
no gambler in the right mind would play the slot machines. their difficult setting can be 'adjusted'
Yes, if everybody win, casino close shop. Why open casino if everybody can win? Only stupid pple go there and give money to them. -
Originally posted by likeyou:
Yes, if everybody win, casino close shop. Why open casino if everybody can win? Only stupid pple go there and give money to them.everybody has their own interest. if you like skiing and i dont i will say its 'stupid' to spend on skiing. (stupid is actually not the right word in this case)
if you buy a 500k sportscar. someone will also say you are 'stupid' to spend so much on a car. only a sportscar enthusiast will agree with you.
there are people who visit the casino to enjoy the game. i used to go to genting kl yearly. i dont deny i lost everytime. but i dont regret at all coz i am a casual player. i enjoy it very much. to me spending a few hundreds per year at casinos is just the same as someone spending a few hundreds on a handbag.
moderation is the key to everything.
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i read when casinoes first open, they make the jackpot machines setting 'easy'.
lure ppl in to keep coming and play.
and slowly, they raise the 'difficulty' level.
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