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(8 May 2018) A 104-year-old Australian scientist has arrived in Switzerland ahead of his planned assisted suicide this week, insisting he's unbowed about his plans to die willingly and hopeful that his premeditated death will send a message to legislators back home.
After arriving at EuroAirport (3.5kms/2 miles northwest of Basel) in France en route to Switzerland on Monday, David Goodall spoke to reporters, telling them he was keen to get on with the next stage of his jourmey.
"I am glad to arrive," he said from a wheelchair. "The message I would like to send is: once one passes the age of 50 or 60, one should be free to decide for oneself, whether one wants to go on living or not."
Lucid, and at turns plaintive and jocular, Goodall reiterated his frustration about not being as free or as mobile in his later life as he once was.
He said he hoped his trip to take his own life in Switzerland - which allows assisted suicide, unlike Australia - would change legislators minds one day.
Goodall, who is expected to meet a doctor on Tuesday and hold a news conference on Wednesday, acknowledged it was "a bit sorry to say goodbye to my family in Bordeaux but that's the way it was."
Switzerland is one of the world's most permissive countries when it comes to assisted suicide.
Representatives of the Swiss "assisted voluntary death" organisation Life Circle, which is assisting Goodall, say that only the small Alpine country and Colombia allow for foreigners to travel in for assisted suicide.

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