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
Road to Joy Road to Joy "Road to Joy" is the last song on Bright Eyes' 2005 album "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning". It was written by Conor Oberst. The name of the album is taken from a lyric in the song. The song begins with a fingerpicking section combined with an interpolation of a melody strongly based on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". As the song progresses, it builds into a march, with the introduction of trumpets and horns. Near the end, everything fades out as Oberst delivers the final verse, and then all of the instruments come in at once in a