{"id":40547,"date":"2018-05-10T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/10\/david-goodall-australias-oldest-scientist-ends-his-own-life-aged-104\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:32:19","slug":"david-goodall-australias-oldest-scientist-ends-his-own-life-aged-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40547","title":{"rendered":"David Goodall, Australia&#039;s oldest scientist, ends his own life aged 104"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodall ate fish and chips and cheesecake and listened to Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony in final hoursAustralia\u2019s oldest scientist, David Goodall, has ended his own life at a clinic in Switzerland, surrounded by family and while listening to Beethoven\u2019s Ode to Joy.The British-born 104-year-old professor was forced to travel on a one-way ticket from his home in Western Australia to Switzerland where liberal assisted dying laws allowed him to end his life legally, in contrast to Australia where it remains forbidden. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/may\/10\/david-goodall-australias-oldest-scientist-ends-his-own-life-at-104\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodall, Australia&#039;s oldest scientist, ends his own life aged 104<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodall ate fish and chips and cheesecake and listened to Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony in final hoursAustralia\u2019s oldest scientist, David Goodall, has ended his own life at a clinic in Switzerland, surrounded by family and while listening to Beethoven\u2019s Ode to Joy.The British-born 104-year-old professor was forced to travel on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}