May 24, 2018

‘There’s just too many of us’: Scientist, 104, feared for the future of Earth

Daniel Piotrowski, Daily Mail UK

He traveled from Australia to Switzerland to die by suicide on May 10.

Philip Nitschke revealed Dr Goodall, 104, was worried about over-population.

‘There are just too many of us, consuming too much,’ Dr Goodall reportedly said.

‘Allowing end of life choice for the elderly… is a logical step’  he added.

An 104-year-old scientist feared for the future of Earth and claimed ‘there are just too many of us’ before he died by assisted suicide this month.

David Goodall, an accomplished British-Australian ecologist, inflamed the euthanasia debate worldwide when he killed himself at a Swiss clinic on May 10.

Now the controversial figure who supported him to his death has revealed Dr Goodall ‘agreed… he was getting out, just in time’.

‘There are just too many of us,’ said David Goodall, 104. He traveled to Switzerland and died by assisted suicide about a fortnight ago, on May 10, after listening to Beethoven

He did not have a funeral as he did not believe in the afterlife.

In an extraordinary statement, euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke outlined Dr Goodall’s concerns about the world’s booming population.

‘He considered his own decision to ‘exit’ of his own accord as his personal contribution to addressing over-population,’ Dr Nitschke’s statement said.

The Exit International campaigner this week released Dr Goodall’s final letter to Australia and a short statement describing some of his last musings.

He revealed Dr Goodall had recently ‘repeated concerns’ about the planet, particularly unchecked population growth.

‘There are just too many of us, consuming too much, changing too many ecosystems too fast,’ Dr Goodall was quoted saying.

The lauded scientist pointed to climate change as evidence of damage unchecked growth was doing to the Earth.

‘It is too late to revert back to the relatively calm and evenly balanced systems we had enjoyed up to the 1950’s,’ Dr Goodall was quoted saying.

‘All we can do now is to adapt to the resulting changes and the damages we caused, us in the first world to an overwhelming degree being responsible for this.’

David Goodall’s final letter to Australia before euthanasia

To my fellow Australians,

I would have preferred to end my days in Australia, the country of my adoption. 

‘Unfortunately the dominant forces of the medical profession have exerted every effort to thwart any attempt at independent actions by the elderly in ending their lives.

Luckily, the medical profession in Switzerland have a more enlightened view, and so I am travelling there – a beautiful country but not my own.

David W. Goodall AM D.Sc

29 April, 2018

Dr Goodall said he was ‘not optimistic’ the world would curb climate change by abiding by the Paris climate agreements ‘but it is worth giving it a good try’.

‘We might prevent the changes spiraling out of control,’ he said.

‘That would decimate the populations greatly and might make the planet a very hostile place.

”Allowing end of life choice for the elderly, not just the terminally ill is a logical step.’

Dr Goodall died surrounded by family and friends after listening to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

He did not have a funeral, as he did not believe in the afterlife.

The world’s global population is estimated to be about 7.5 billion.