Carmen Mark (right), 18, with her mother Ariess Tan, 41, and father Mark Kok Wah, 44. An only child, Carmen collapsed suddenly on July 3 while having lunch at Nanyang Polytechnic, where she was studying under a nursing scholarship from the National Heart Centre.PHOTO: COURTESY OF MARK KOK WAH.
SINGAPORE: She was a bright, cheerful nursing student who had wanted to help others in life.
But after suffering an arterial rupture in her brain, 18-year-old Carmen Mark fell into a three-week coma and died on Tuesday.
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