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Final Exit Network, Inc. (FEN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit right to die advocacy group incorporated under Florida law. [1] It holds that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness, intractable pain, or irreversible physical (though not necessarily terminal) conditions have a right to voluntarily end their lives. [2]
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.
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.
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 ...
Kevin Bradley, of Mankato, and Edmund Ballou, of Naperville, Ill., and the Florida-based Final Exit Network filed their lawsuit Tuesday in ... ‘Exit guides’ sue Anoka County authorities for ...
De Laurentiis, 53, addressed her exit from the network in a new interview for Rebecca Minkoff's Superwomen podcast, where the Italian-American chef admitted she had been "very fearful of leaving ...
Tensions appear to lie between societies that advance all options to a reliable, peaceful and painless death such as Exit International, Final Exit Network in the US, and Right to Die Society Canada for example, and most other member societies that only advocate for a medical model regulated by legislation with restrictive eligibility criteria.
Former CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota is speaking out following her abrupt exit from the network. “Before we go, on this very busy news day, I just wanted to take a moment to share some personal news.