Sir David Attenborough has said that when he dies he’d ‘just like it to be a quick process, thanks very much’.
The legendary broadcaster turns 97 tomorrow (8 May) and while we’re hoping he’ll be around for many more years, he has in recent times spoken about the prospect of a world where he’s not around.
Two years ago he spoke about whether or not he fears death to Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes and said he didn’t as long as it was quick.
In other interviews where he’s discussed his own mortality he’s said he hopes his final moments won’t be painful or ‘tiresome for others’.
In his shows Attenborough has made several impassioned pleas to people to do something serious about climate change, and to pressure the powerful who can enact real change into doing so.
He has also said he hoped people would reconnect with nature and rediscover their passion for preserving it, having remembered the shocking sight of diving down to a coral reef and discovering that it was dead.
He said: “I thought I was going to dive in, in eastern Australia on the Barrier Reef, and instead of seeing the most marvellous, beautiful, extraordinary, wonderful wonderland, it was a cemetery.”
He’s rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, as well as got up close and personal with so many wonderful parts of our natural world, and so desperately wants us not to destroy our beloved planet before it’s too late to fix things.
Speaking about the privilege of seeing so many wonderful things over the course of his life he warned that ‘many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever’.
Sir David Attenborough has said that when he dies he’d ‘just like it to be a quick process, thanks very much’.
The legendary broadcaster turns 97 tomorrow (8 May) and while we’re hoping he’ll be around for many more years, he has in recent times spoken about the prospect of a world where he’s not around.
Two years ago he spoke about whether or not he fears death to Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes and said he didn’t as long as it was quick.
In other interviews where he’s discussed his own mortality he’s said he hopes his final moments won’t be painful or ‘tiresome for others’.
In his shows Attenborough has made several impassioned pleas to people to do something serious about climate change, and to pressure the powerful who can enact real change into doing so.
He has also said he hoped people would reconnect with nature and rediscover their passion for preserving it, having remembered the shocking sight of diving down to a coral reef and discovering that it was dead.
He said: “I thought I was going to dive in, in eastern Australia on the Barrier Reef, and instead of seeing the most marvellous, beautiful, extraordinary, wonderful wonderland, it was a cemetery.”
He’s rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, as well as got up close and personal with so many wonderful parts of our natural world, and so desperately wants us not to destroy our beloved planet before it’s too late to fix things.
Speaking about the privilege of seeing so many wonderful things over the course of his life he warned that ‘many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever’.
Sir David Attenborough has said that when he dies he’d ‘just like it to be a quick process, thanks very much’.
The legendary broadcaster turns 97 tomorrow (8 May) and while we’re hoping he’ll be around for many more years, he has in recent times spoken about the prospect of a world where he’s not around.
Two years ago he spoke about whether or not he fears death to Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes and said he didn’t as long as it was quick.
In other interviews where he’s discussed his own mortality he’s said he hopes his final moments won’t be painful or ‘tiresome for others’.
In his shows Attenborough has made several impassioned pleas to people to do something serious about climate change, and to pressure the powerful who can enact real change into doing so.
He has also said he hoped people would reconnect with nature and rediscover their passion for preserving it, having remembered the shocking sight of diving down to a coral reef and discovering that it was dead.
He said: “I thought I was going to dive in, in eastern Australia on the Barrier Reef, and instead of seeing the most marvellous, beautiful, extraordinary, wonderful wonderland, it was a cemetery.”
He’s rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, as well as got up close and personal with so many wonderful parts of our natural world, and so desperately wants us not to destroy our beloved planet before it’s too late to fix things.
Speaking about the privilege of seeing so many wonderful things over the course of his life he warned that ‘many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever’.
Sir David Attenborough has said that when he dies he’d ‘just like it to be a quick process, thanks very much’.
The legendary broadcaster turns 97 tomorrow (8 May) and while we’re hoping he’ll be around for many more years, he has in recent times spoken about the prospect of a world where he’s not around.
Two years ago he spoke about whether or not he fears death to Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes and said he didn’t as long as it was quick.
In other interviews where he’s discussed his own mortality he’s said he hopes his final moments won’t be painful or ‘tiresome for others’.
In his shows Attenborough has made several impassioned pleas to people to do something serious about climate change, and to pressure the powerful who can enact real change into doing so.
He has also said he hoped people would reconnect with nature and rediscover their passion for preserving it, having remembered the shocking sight of diving down to a coral reef and discovering that it was dead.
He said: “I thought I was going to dive in, in eastern Australia on the Barrier Reef, and instead of seeing the most marvellous, beautiful, extraordinary, wonderful wonderland, it was a cemetery.”
He’s rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, as well as got up close and personal with so many wonderful parts of our natural world, and so desperately wants us not to destroy our beloved planet before it’s too late to fix things.
Speaking about the privilege of seeing so many wonderful things over the course of his life he warned that ‘many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever’.
