{"id":360722,"date":"2018-05-11T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/life-cut-short-at-104\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:05:41","slug":"life-cut-short-at-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/life-cut-short-at-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Cut Short at 104"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is the purpose of living anyway?<\/p>\n

Well, if it\u2019s living long, he certainly did that.\u00a0\u00a0But one gets the impression that if David Goodall, a noted evolutionary botanist and ecologist, had been able to retain his mobility and eyesight, he had much more work to do.\u00a0\u00a0Was his life cut short at 104 years of age?\u00a0\u00a0An answer to that question will be explored a bit more below.<\/p>\n

Goodall\u2019s scientific achievements include editorship of a book about THE\u00a0EVOLUTION OF DESERT BIOTA<\/a>, a comparison of desert animals and plants living on three continents, and a 30-volume series of books called \u201cECOSYSTEMS OF THE WORLD<\/a>.\u201d But after a century of living he said he \u201chasn\u2019t got anything to live for<\/a>\u201d and\u00a0took his own life at a Swiss medical clinic today<\/a>\u00a0where euthanasia is legally permitted.<\/p>\n

The texts mentioned above were published after his official retirement in 1979, so most of his later years were still productive.<\/p>\n

Goodall, who had three wives but lived alone, trekked to work at a university in Perth in a 90-minute bus and train commute up until his final year of life.\u00a0\u00a0A year ago Goodall was asked what keeps him working?\u00a0\u00a0He quipped: \u201cI have nothing much else to do<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0He was limited to editing scientific papers because \u201cI can\u2019t see very well and I can\u2019t walk very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

British born, he lived in Australia since 1948.\u00a0\u00a0A\u00a0CNN report revealed<\/a>\u00a0more about Goodall\u2019s years after he officially retired in 1979:
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Goodall said that his life stopped being enjoyable \u201cfive or 10 years ago,\u201d in part because of his failing mobility and eyesight.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life has been out in the field (working), but I can\u2019t go out in the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What is the purpose of living anyway? Well, if it\u2019s living long, he certainly did that.\u00a0\u00a0But one gets the impression that if David Goodall, a noted evolutionary botanist and ecologist, had been able to retain his mobility and eyesight, he had much more work to do.\u00a0\u00a0Was his life cut short at 104 years of age?\u00a0\u00a0An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}