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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.
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.
Hemlock found in a Pierce County park last month forced a Fort Steilacoom dog park to be temporarily closed. In fact, Pierce County is one of three counties in the state most impacted by poison ...
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 Network was founded in 2004 by former members of the Hemlock Society, including that organization's co-founders, Derek Humphry and Dr. Faye Girsh. [5] It was named after Humphry's 1991 book of the same name. [6] It is a member of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. [7]
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