Derek Humphry

Derek Humphry
Derek Humphry photo image (2012)
Humphry in 2012
Born(1930-04-29)29 April 1930
Bath, Somerset, England
Died2 January 2025(2025-01-02) (aged 94)
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
Nationality
  • British
  • American
Notable awardsMartin Luther King Memorial Prize (1972)
Saba Prize (2000)
Website
www.finalexit.org/about_derek_humphry.html Edit this at Wikidata

Derek Humphry (29 April 1930 – 2 January 2025) was a British and American journalist and author. He was also an activist, supporting legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society. In 2004, he co-founded Final Exit Network.

From 1988 to 1990, he was president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.[1]

He was the author of Jean's Way (1978), The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia (1986), and Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (1991).

Humphry died of congestive heart failure on 2 January 2025, at the age of 94.[2]

References

  1. "About the author", Extract from Final Exit – Digital edition 2007.
  2. "The WFRtDS joins other voices of the right to die movement to pay their respects to Derek Humphry". World Federation of Right to Die Societies. 8 January 2025. Retrieved 9 January 2025.

Other websites

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