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Derek Humphry

Born

in Bath, England, The United Kingdom

April 29, 1930

Died

January 02, 2025

Genre

Nonfiction, Health, Mind & Body, Social Sciences

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Derek Humphry was a British and American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolved, he co-founded Final Exit Network. From 1988 to 1990, he was president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and was most recently the president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO).
He was the author of several related books, including Jean's Way (1978), The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia (1986), and Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (1991). ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 1,343 ratings · 154 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying 3.96 avg rating — 1,157 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jean's Way 4.10 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1984 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Me Die Before I Wake: Hemlock's Book of Self-Deliverance for the Dying 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1981 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Right To Die: Understanding Euthanasia by Derek Humphry, Ann Wickett really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying With Dignity: Understanding Euthanasia 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Me Die Before I Wake & Supplement to Final Exit 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Supplement to Final Exit 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lawful Exit: The Limits of Freedom for Help in Dying 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Life, Good Death: The Memoir of a Right to Die Pioneer by Derek Humphry, Stephen Jamison (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	False Messiah: The Story of Michael X 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The dilemma is awesome. But it has to be faced. Should you battle on, take the pain, endure the indignities, and await the inevitable end, which may be days, weeks, or months away? Or should you take control of the situation and resort to some form of euthanasia, which in its modern-language definition has come to mean “help with a good death”?”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

tags: death, euthanasia, suicide

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“Involuntary euthanasia – This is the most controversial way of hastened death, yet it goes on widely and secretly everywhere. Only the Dutch admit to it. It is sometimes necessary when a patient is suddenly, unexpectedly dying in agony, cannot communicate their wishes, and so the attending doctor administers a merciful end.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

tags: death, euthanasia, suicide

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“Self-destruction by hanging is almost always an act of protest, a desire to shock and hurt someone. Therefore, believers in euthanasia avoid it. Even if the job of cutting down the body is left to the police or paramedics, this is an unacceptably selfish way to die, and I have never heard of a euthanasia supporter using it. Unless the neck is broken by the rope jerking the fall to a stop (as a professional hangman arranges), then it is death by strangulation, often not so quick.”
― Derek Humphry, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

tags: death, euthanasia, suicide

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