15th Jan 2008
AFP
SINGAPORE -- Retiring to take it easy is a sure route to death, Singapore's 84-year-old founding father Lee Kuan Yew was quoted as saying Monday.
Lee, who remains active despite his advanced years, told a conference statistics show that people tend to die shortly after retiring, and that the most important lesson he has learned is that we all need stimuli.
"If you believe that at 55, you're retiring, you're going to read books, play golf and drink wine, then I think you're done for," he said... Full story
