WorldBASEL (Reuters) - A 104-year-old Australian scientist killed himself in Switzerland on Thursday by lethal injection in an assisted suicide he hoped would trigger more lenient euthanasia laws in his home country. British-born David Goodall, who was not terminally ill, personally triggered a lethal dose of a barbiturate and died at 1030 GMT in a clinic near Basel, the assisted suicide group Exit International said. He came to Switzerland for its laws that have made assisted suicide legal since the 1940s, a legal curiosity that has made the country what some call a “death tourism” magnet. “In fact his last words were ‘This is taking an awfully long time!’ “ Nitschke said. Before his death, Goodall said there were things he would have changed, had he to do it all over again.

Source: Sunday Times May 10, 2018 17:26 UTC