Derek Humphry

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."About the author", Extract from Final Exit – Digital edition 2007.

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.

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