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The Hemlock Society (sometimes called Hemlock Society USA) was an American right-to-die and assisted suicide advocacy organization which existed from 1980 to 2003, which took its name from the hemlock plant Conium maculatum, a highly poisonous herb in the carrot family, as a direct reference to the method by which the Athenian philosopher Socrates took his life in 399 BC, as described in Plato ...
Compassion & Choices is a nonprofit organization in the United States working to promote what the organization views as patient autonomy and individual choice at the end of life, including access to physician assisted suicide or what the organization refers to as “aid in dying,” which in the USA is generally limited to people with terminal illnesses.
Derek Humphry (born 29 April 1930) is a British and American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die.In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolved, he co-founded Final Exit Network.
What plants look like hemlock? Poison hemlock is often confused with many plants. Here’s what you should know about those lookalikes. Queen Anne’s Lace/wild carrot: Edible and medicinal. Grows ...
It’s the substance that killed the Greek philosopher Socrates and, in 2010, a Tacoma woman. Now a patch of poison hemlock will force the temporary closure of a Lakewood dog park in order to ...
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, often shortened to just Final Exit, is a 1991 book written by Derek Humphry, a British-born American journalist, author, and assisted suicide advocate who co-founded the now-defunct Hemlock Society in 1980 and co-founded the Final Exit Network in 2004.
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