Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, People in the News, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Sep 27th, 2021
Farewell to Hemlock: Killed by its Name
Posted in Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Jun 16th, 2021
Book back again Because ‘Final Exit’ is mentioned in the new movie NOMADLAND, there’s been huge, unexpected demand and we ran out of the paperback.! A new printing has arrived. We dispatched back ordered copies on 16 June, USPS. They should reach around 6.19 to 6.24, depending on destination. —– Derek Humphry, author, Oregon All […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Switzerland on May 13th, 2021
The paperback book ‘Final Exit’ has sold out worldwide. PenguinRandomHouse is rushing out a new printing. This is a 30-year-old guidebook for the terminally and degeneratively ill adult at the end of life. Frequently updated. The mention of the book on the new movie NOMADLAND is the cause. But it is instantly available on KINDLE, […]
Posted in Assisted dying, death, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, right to die, Self-Deliverance on May 2nd, 2021
We’ve had an extraordinary demand for the book ‘Final Exit’ since it is mentioned in the movie NOMADLAND, (3 Oscars 2021) thus delivery will be slower than usual — but certain….the publishers have had to go back to press. Derek Humphry is the author, not Dr. Kevorkian as the movie character mistakenly says. But it […]
Posted in 'Last Wish', Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Dutch euthanasia, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Living Will, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Switzerland on Apr 1st, 2021
Dr Henry Marsh: The law insists that I suffer until the end Dr Henry Marsh Friday April 02 2021 After many decades of working with patients facing death, a recent diagnosis of advanced cancer means that I now face death myself — possibly within a year, perhaps up to five years or more if I […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Azheimer's, Canada assisted dying laws, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law on Mar 18th, 2021
Canada has expanded the scope of its laws on medically assisted death to include people whose demise is not foreseeable and opened the door for the mentally ill to have the procedure. The law, given royal assent on Wednesday, revamps assisted death in Canada and comes as assisted suicide is legalised in Spain, fulfilling a […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, Philip Nitschke MD, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Mar 12th, 2021
Book Notice THE INEVITABLE: Dispatches on the Right to Die By Katie Engelhart St. Martin’s Press 3/2021 I’ve read every non-academic book on the right to die in the last 40 years and the scope of this new one comes as a pleasant change: in-depth, international, doctor-probing, and examining certain people who want accelerated death […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, Jean's Way, Living Will, Nitrogen, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Feb 20th, 2021
Did you happen to see Friday night’s program “Father Brown” on PBS TV ? Show name: ‘The Angel of Mercy.’ It featured two deaths which at first seemed normal to the police but which the great ministerial R.C. ‘detective’ suspected to be murder. He eventually found that both persons, who had advanced cancer, had […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Living Will, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Dec 23rd, 2020
ERGO’s mission is that making solid progress — via acceptability and legality — is best achieved by the international exchange of pertinent literature, news and views. Our aim is to give choices in dying to the terminally and degenerative ill adult; people with issues contact ERGO daily. Since 1995, we have funded the organization through […]
Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Nov 30th, 2020
This article by Faye Girsh, of the Hemlock Society of San Diego, is well worth reading, and perhaps filing, but it is too long to publish on this blog: Ten Ways to Help Ensure a Peaceful Death Only 10% of us will die in our sleep. For the rest, here is a list that can […]
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