Lawful Exit: The Limits of Freedom for Help in Dying

by Derek Humphry

'Lawful Exit' analyzes why the attempts to reform the law on euthanasia in Washington and California states have failed. This book points a new direction for legal, medical assisted dying for the terminally ill, emphasizing ethical and practical guidelines to prevent abuse.

165 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

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).