{"id":11902,"date":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/professor-david-goodall-s-haunting-last-words\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"professor-david-goodall-s-haunting-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/professor-david-goodall-s-haunting-last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor David Goodall\u2019s Haunting Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>104-year-old Australian scientist Professor David Goodall has travelled to Switzerland where he voluntarily ended his own life over night, signing off with the final words: \u201cThis is taking a long time.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Prof Goodall said goodbye to his family in Perth last week before heading overseas to undergo an assisted death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cAt my age, or less than my age, one wants to be free to choose the death when the death is at an appropriate time,\u201d Prof Goodall told reporters. \u201cI no longer want to continue life.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m happy to have a chance to end it.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr David Goodall&#39;s final words at an assisted suicide clinic were &quot;this is taking an awfully long time&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DL4hQmJGHJ\">pic.twitter.com\/DL4hQmJGHJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/994625755719008256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>104-year-old Australian scientist Professor David Goodall has travelled to Switzerland where he voluntarily ended his own life over night, signing off with the final words: \u201cThis is taking a long time.\u201d Prof Goodall said goodbye to his family in Perth last week before heading overseas to undergo an assisted death. \u201cAt my age, or less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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