False Messiah: The Story of Michael X

by Derek Humphry

Hard cover with unclipped dust jacket, both in good condition. Ex-library book, with several stamps and record details to front pastedown and endpaper. General shelf and handling wear, including creasing, wear and tanning to DJ cover, corners, edges and folds. Light scoring present. Spine is cocked and pageblock tanned. Within, pages are tightly bound, and content is clear and bright. CN

221 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

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).