Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, helium death, Hemlock, Jean's Way, Living Will, Nembutal, Nitrogen, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Nov 22nd, 2019
Final Exit 2020 is only available through the ERGO Bookstore. Order and download the eBook at https://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, death, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, helium death, Hemlock, Jean's Way, Living Will, Nembutal, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, Publications/InternetMedia, right to die, RTD News, Seconal, Self-Deliverance on Nov 15th, 2019
FINAL EXIT 2020 (Digital eBook Edition) Self-deliverance and assisted dying for the terminally and hopelessly ill By Derek Humphry This new version of the famous guide Final Exit has been called a suicide handbook, yet careful readers will find that it is powerfully addressed to terminally and hopelessly ill adults who have fought for life […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, RTD News on Nov 8th, 2019
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act turns 25 today. On November 8, 1994, Oregonians voted to pass the first assisted dying law in the U.S. and the world, demonstrating their belief that terminally ill patients deserved the right to choose how they die. The historic vote came after a hard-fought campaign led by a dedicated […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, helium death, Hemlock, Jean's Way, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Jul 30th, 2019
After the publication of ‘Final Exit‘ in l991, it was often used by writers to illustrate their works, particularly TV. Wikipedia’s entry on the book lists 11 such instances Book still selling consistently in 2019. It has never won any prizes — but I suppose you wouldn’t expect that a how-to book on dying well […]
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Good Life, Good Death — YouTube video Derek Humphry • 4.6K views The writer Derek Humphry talks about his memoir, ‘Good Life Good Death’. 4 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFinalExit
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Amazon Books today ordered 9 copies of ‘Jean’s Way’ – a memoir I first published in l978 !! I’ve never changed a word of it through all the editions. The book has come to memorialize Jean’s courage in the face of death at age 42. ‘Jean’s Way: A Love Story’ is also available on Kindle.
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Books, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, helium death, Hemlock, Nembutal, Nitrogen, physician-assisted suicide, Self-Deliverance on Jun 27th, 2019
Literature from Derek Humphry: Final Exit, Digital Edition eBook or paperack in the mail. Updated 25th Anniversary Edition and ‘How To Make Your Own Inert Gas Hood Kit’ 06/2019 Go to https://www.finalexit.org
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, exit bag, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Oregon law, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations on May 19th, 2019
LET’S INCLUDE MORE OF THE DYING IN DEATH WITH DIGNITY LAW Choices for Compassionate Ending of Life (CCEoL) is a campaigning group with the sole aim of making Oregon’s pioneering Death With Dignity Act more available in modern times. After two hard-fought citizen ballot initiatives, the Oregon law took effect in l998 and has since […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Opinion Pieces, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational) on Mar 31st, 2019
By Derek Humphry What’s in a word? Is saying ‘suicide’ as in ‘assisted suicide’ preferable, or is it better to use an euphemism like ‘assisted dying’? From the start in l980 we at the Hemlock Society always bluntly called the medical helping to die procedures ‘physician-assisted suicide’ and, when carried out alone, ‘self-deliverance’. We stressed […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, right to die, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance on Jan 6th, 2019
Veteran of 40 years involvement with the right-to-die movement, in the USA and worldwide, Sidney D. Rosoff died on 4 January 2019 at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 94. He was president of the Hemlock Society USA 1992-1995, previously chairman of the Society for the Right to Die, and […]
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