Derek Humphry
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| Born | 29 April 1930 Bath, Somerset, England |
| Died | 2 January 2025 (aged 94) Eugene, Oregon, U.S. |
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| Notable awards | Martin Luther King Memorial Prize (1972) Saba Prize (2000) |
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Derek Humphry (29 April 1930 – 2 January 2025) was a British and American journalist and author. He was also an activist, supporting legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society. In 2004, he co-founded Final Exit Network.
From 1988 to 1990, he was president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.[1]
He was the author of 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).
Humphry died of congestive heart failure on 2 January 2025 under hospice care in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 94.[2][3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "About the author", Extract from Final Exit – Digital edition 2007.
- ↑ "The WFRtDS joins other voices of the right to die movement to pay their respects to Derek Humphry". World Federation of Right to Die Societies. 8 January 2025. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ↑ "Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94". The New York Times. January 28, 2025. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
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