About Derek Humphry
Jan 29th, 2006 by ergo
Derek Humphry is a veteran journalist (London Sunday Times, Los Angeles Times, etc) and author of 14 books, best known of which is the DIY for terminally ill people “Final Exit”. A video version of this book directed and spoken by the book’s author is also available on DVD.
Where can I get a copy of your book – please advice.
At the ERGO bookstore: http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store
Other books on euthanasia as well.
Derek- Thank you for distributing the newsletter… vol.12/274 was informative and lots of work. Congratulations on being on Amazons top 6000, and I hope such an exalted status is also handsomely rewarded!
I went to this website because your email address did not pop up in my Outlook right away, so I read the description of PAD phrases for the first time. I have been told that using the word “suicide” lessens the favorable reaction to a physician assisted suicide proposal by 17%, so I have opted in favor of Tom Preston’s patient directed dying. I wanted to point out to you that this phrase implies to me that there is a doctor involved somewhere in the process because of the word “patient.” Don’t you think so? And if my perception is right, then placing it in the category of those phrases describing patients who want to do it themselves would not be accurate, right? Since there seems to be some serious planning going on right now (I am not part of it) for a new WA effort, this distinction could be important.
Have a Merry and Happy, thanks again for your sharing, Bruce
In l975 I helped my first wife, Jean, when she asked me to bring her lethal drugs so as to take her own life. She was suffering from end-stage breast cancer. Altho what I did was a crime, because it was Jean’s idea and a compassionate act, the prosecutor (in the UK) decided not to charge me. I have been campaigning for lawful physician-assisted suicide ever since. (See my book ‘Jean’s Way‘)
You can see a biography and a bibliography of Derek Humphry, journalist, author and euthanasia campaigner, plus a cartoon, at this page:
http://www.finalexit.org