Final Exit, 3rd Edition (2010 printing)

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Final Exit, 3rd edition
The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance
and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

by Derek Humphry,
founder of the Hemlock Society

Revised 3rd edition (updated April 2010)
ISBN 0-3853365-3-5
Paperback • 250 pages
Price: $17.00 + shipping
Autographed by the author

Also available: "Final Exit Digital Edition" eBook in downloadable PDF format. Includes everything in Final Exit 3rd edition paperback (April 2010 printing). For more info visit the "Final Exit Digital Edition" product page.

Book Description:

'Final Exit' is the most famous D.I.Y. textbook on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. There is unique step-by-step language for the competent adult who is terminally or hopelessly ill to bring their life to a peaceful, non-violent end if they wish. This can be achieved without Dr. Kevorkian or any doctor. Drug dosages and helium gas techniques are described and illustrated.

Much the same methods are used by Dignitas in Switzerland, and the right to die groups in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Colombia, and Belgium, countries where doctor-assisted dying is legal.

'Final Exit' also outlines the legal complications connected with dying, death, hastened death, euthanasia laws, suicide, Living Wills and Advance Directives. The family aspect is discussed and the advisability of a 'suicide note' (with sample) is addressed. The full Oregon Death With Dignity Act, which permits physician-assisted suicide for the citizens of that state (and more recently Washington), is included as an appendices. The problems with life insurance and suicide are discussed, as are the ethics of double suicide.

This third edition of 'Final Exit' is much changed from the earlier editions, which date from 1991 when it was, the 'Number One' bestseller on the New York Times nonfiction list. For instance, the first and second editions did not contain the helium gas technique now used by hundreds of people for their own euthanasia. The revised 3rd edition also includes new drug dosages plus updated guidance on helium hood method and exit bag (plastic bag) and other techniques.

In April of 2007, the national newspaper USA Today selected 'Final Exit' as one of the 25 most memorable books published in the last quarter century. The papers' editors and critics said: "The topic of assisted suicide exploded in controversy in the 90's, thanks to the Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine, and this how-to manual [Final Exit] from an English journalist who helped his cancer-stricken first wife kill herself."

‘Final Exit’ has been translated into 12 languages, the latest one being Korean (2010). Some right-to-die groups use the book as a required primer for people considering hastening their end.

If you are asking the question 'what is assisted suicide?' or 'what is euthanasia and assisted death?' then this exit book provides the clearest answers. It has been ‘the gold standard’ of such books for 20 years. There is, as yet, no simple 'peaceful pill' for self euthanasia, and law reform is lagging behind public opinion, so until then 'Final Exit' may be the solution to protracted terminal suffering.

• Read an excerpt from 'Final Exit'.

• Click the link at the bottom of this description for more information about 'Final Exit'.

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The author, Derek Humphry, who now has more than 30 years experience in the death with dignity movement, helped his first wife Jean to die when suffering a lingering death from breast cancer. His book on that event, 'Jean's Way' is a cult classic. Five years after her death he founded the Hemlock Society at his new home in Santa Monica. Derek built the group into a national organization between 1980 and 1992.(Hemlock was merged in 2003 into another organization, Compassion and Choices.)

Today Humphry runs the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO), a nonprofit organization based outside of Eugene, Oregon. He is a policy adviser to the American group, the Final Exit Network, and to the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, of which he was president in 1988-90.

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Previous purchasers of Final Exit, 3rd Edition (pre April 2010 printing) can order and download the Final Exit, 3rd Edition Addendum (Supplement) in PDF format - OR - order the PRINTED version of Final Exit, 3rd Edition Addendum (Supplement).

NOTE: The 2009 Addendum is a supplement to Final Exit, 3rd Edition paperback (pre April 2010 printing) and for the Final Exit 2nd edition or previous).

The Final Exit 3rd Edition book and the Final Exit DVD video are a complementary matched set made for each other. The Final Exit DVD Video is also available on VHS.

Or see link below for more info.

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