Our guest today on Euthanasia: Pro and Con is Derek Humphry, an American journalist, author, principal
founder in 1980 of the Hemlock Society USA and past president of the World
Federation of Right to Die Societies, both of which support the notion of
decriminalization of voluntary euthanasia. Mr. Humphry is also the president of
the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization and advisor to the Final
Exit Network. Mr. Humphry was awarded the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize in 1972
and the Saba Prize in 2000
Mr.
Humphry’s first wife, Jean Humphry, ended her life on 29 March 1975, with her
husband at her side, via an intentional overdose of medication. Mrs. Humphry
was suffering from terminal breast cancer. Mr. Humphry told that story from his
perspective in his best-selling novel titled Jean's Way. In 1991, Mr. Humphry wrote the suicide handbook titled,
Final Exit. His website is
www.ergo@efn.org
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