Derek Humphry

Derek Humphry (29 April 1930 – 2 January 2025) was a British and American journalist and author. He was a proponent of legal <a href="/facts/Assisted_suicide/5g1L0wQy">assisted suicide</a> and the <a href="/facts/Right_to_die/Q4p6b7rJ">right to die</a>. In 1980 he co-founded the <a href="/facts/Hemlock_Society/DQPoAYCk">Hemlock Society</a>, and in 2004 after the Society dissolved, he co-founded <a href="/facts/Final_Exit_Network/dL44Q456">Final Exit Network</a>. From 1988 to 1990 he was president of the <a href="/facts/World_Federation_of_Right_to_Die_Societies/El98SlaN">World Federation of Right to Die Societies</a>. As of 2007 he was the president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO).
Humphry was the author of the related books <a href="/facts/Jean%27s_Way/QYjzWIaR">Jean's Way</a> (1978), The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia (1986), and <a href="/facts/Final_Exit/HfzkkujD">Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying</a> (1991).

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Derek Humphry