Final Exit, Derek Humphry
Final Exit, Derek Humphry
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Final Exit
The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, 3rd Edition

Author: Derek Humphry

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/21/2017

Synopsis

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.

About Derek Humphry

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vonia on September 29, 2017

I was rather torn on my rating of this... I saw this book as, bluntly, a how-to book on suicide. With my personal attachment to the idea of suicide, I found it very bothersome that this book has been published (albeit, understandably, self-published). There are diagrams, step-by-step guides, tips, e......more

Goodreads review by Lou on September 17, 2007

Why am I rating a book on assisted suicide so highly? Because this is not a book about death. It's a book about life. It doesn't attempt to answer questions for you even though it states an opinion. It only prompts you to ask various questions of yourself. What is life? Who's job is it to value it? Ther......more

Goodreads review by Hootkat on July 14, 2009

Iv read it many times. Im happy to say my major residence is in OR. A right to die state......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 21, 2012

Final Exit was written for people that suffer from cancer, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy, emphysema, congestive heart failure, stroke, AIDS and more. It says in the book that although suicide is not encouraged the book was wr......more

Goodreads review by Ottilee on February 20, 2019

I read this book when it first came out in '91 as I am a BIG proponent of Right To Die. I see nothing wrong with it and believe FIRMLY that G accepts your soul to heaven on His timetable, not ours and therefore there's no such thing as 'Suicide'. I've read quite a few of these books but Mr. Humphreys......more

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