Euthanasia: Essays and Briefings on the Right to Choose to Die

by Derek Humphry

The choice essays and briefings of this author on voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are printed in a small volume for the inquiring reader who wants a quick dip into this complex subject -- the right to choose to die.

140 pages, Paperback

About the author

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).