In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy”

In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy” For many of us, Jane Goodall was one of those cultural figures who seemed always to have been around, and on some level, made us feel like she always would be. But of course, no human being lives forever, no matter how widely admired. Goodall made her own departure last fall, in the middle of an American speaking tour, at the age of 91. Just two days thereafter, she appeared as the guest on the premiere of Netflix’s Famous Last Words, a program consisting of interviews conducted expressly to air only after the interviewee’s death. In the clip above, the show’s host, TV writer-director-producer Brad Falchuk, asks her an outwardly simple question: “Who would you say you were?” Goodall describes herself as “somebody sent to this world to try to give people hope in dark times, because without hope, we fall into apathy and do nothing, and in the dark times that we are living in now, if peopl

Added 24 Mar 2026