Dr. Thomas Noguchi performed autopsies on Robert F. Kennedy, John Belushi and perhaps most famously, Marilyn Monroe. “I don’t just plan to live until I’m 100,” he told the Japanese journalist Yamada Toshihiro at the time. “I plan to work until I’m 100.” (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia).
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