While death maybe an unfortunate and inevitable occurrence in human life, the death of government policies was originally thought of as so or near impossible. Many researchers considered that termination can cause difficulties when trying to identify causal and predictable relationships. Possibly even more troublesome is the misunderstanding of what constitutes termination (Kinney, N, 2013).

However, the government of Malaysia have terminated several policies such as Teaching Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI), Goods and Services Taxes (GST) and bend bridge project.

1. Based on the examples given above, do you agree with the author? Justify your answer

2. If you were hired as a public official and you were given instructions to terminate a program or a policy,

   1. i) how would you proceed?

   2. ii) would you apply the big bang or the long whimper approach? Justify your answer?