A unique desk reference book for the world right-to-die movement. All organizations with contact details, the laws, a bibliography, a filmography and chronology of important events in euthanasia and assisted suicide. Edited by Derek Humphry, president of the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO) "
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).