Overview

Final Exit is the most famous book on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. There is unique step by step language for the competent adult who is terminally or hopelessly ill to bring their life to a peaceful, non-violent end if they wish. Final Exit outlines the legal complications connected with dying, death, hastened death, euthanasia laws, suicide, living wills, and advance directives. Derek Humphry explores the problems with life insurance, as well as the ethics of double suicide.

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9781665277921

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"Until there is a law which would allow physicians to help people who want a Final Exit, here is Derek Humphry's book, fittingly named, to guide them.-- ""Betty Rollin, author of First, You Cry"""

Until there is a law which would allow physicians to help people who want a Final Exit, here is Derek Humphry's book, fittingly named, to guide them.-- Betty Rollin, author of First, You Cry

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Derek Humphry is an advocacy journalist who has written books on race relations, police corruption, and a biography of Michael X. He won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for Because They're Black. After nursing his wife with inoperable cancer who chose to end her life with lethal drugs to avoid future suffering, he published Jean's Way describing her final years and his part in helping her to die peacefully. It became a bestseller and was translated into major languages. Proud to be a paperback writer, Derek has published thirteen books in forty years. He is president of the nonprofit Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO), which he founded in 1993. He is also a cofounder and chairman of the advisory board of the Final Exit Network and an adviser to the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. Clive Chafer is a professional actor, director, producer, and theater instructor. Originally from England and educated at Leeds and Exeter universities, he has performed and directed at many theaters in the San Francisco area, where he makes his home, and elsewhere in the US. In 1993 he founded TheatreFIRST, Oakland's professional theater company, where he served as artistic director until 2008.

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