David Goodall (botanist) should have full citizenship rights including the right to assisted suicide." Goodall travelled first to France to visit family, and then to Liestal, Switzerland, where two doctors cleared him to proceed with his assisted suicide, although he was not terminally ill. In Switzerland, Exit International organised a press conference during which Goodall answered journalists' questions and sang the first few lines of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, based on Schiller's poem Ode to Joy, in German. Goodall ended his life on 10 May while listening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Surrounded by his family, Goodall pushed a lever
The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs Best Novelette. The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Carter Scholz. It was first published in "Universe 7". Time travelling musicologists enter the mind of Ludwig van Beethoven so as to observe the creation of his ninth symphony, but their presence changes things in unexpected ways, and the symphony is lost. "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs" was a finalist for the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1978 Hugo