Final Exit ‘Digital Edition’ (eBook PDF April 2010) : ERGO Store - Assisted Suicide - Voluntary Euthanasia - Right to Die - Books, eBooks, Video and Documents by Derek Humphry

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Final Exit ‘Digital Edition’ (eBook PDF)
The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance
and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

by Derek Humphry,
founder of the Hemlock Society

• Revised 3rd edition in digital format - Updated April 2010
• eBook available only at the ERGO Store
• eBook PDF • 750KB • 214 pages
• ISBN 0-3853365-3-5
• Price: $25.00 • No shipping charges for eBooks

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Final Exit Book Description:

The most famous textbook in euthanasia and assisted suicide. Includes unique step-by-step language for a competent adult who is terminally or hopelessly ill and wishing to bring their life to a peaceful, non-violent end. This can be achieved without Dr. Kevorkian or any doctor. Drug dosages and helium gas techniques are described and illustrated.

See what this eBook is all about. View this sample PDF containing several ‘Final Exit’ page excerpts, the table of contents and author biography.

Much the same methods are used by Dignitas in Switzerland, and the right to die groups in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Colombia, and countries where euthanasia laws have been passed. (Except for Switzerland, these laws can only be used by residents, under strict guidelines.) The American states of Oregon and Washington have voted for physician-assisted suicide -- but only for its residents who are competent adults and terminally ill.

‘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 (‘Whom to you tell?’) and the advisability of a ‘suicide note’ (with sample) is addressed. The problems with life insurance are clarified. The difficult issues of double suicide and hastened death for persons with disabilities are frankly discussed.

Appendices references include: glossary of terms connected with dying; alternative euphemistic terms for assisted dying and death; International and US right-to-die law including the Oregon Death With Dignity Act; etc.

This digital edition of ‘Final Exit’ matches the current updated 3rd edition paperback. Both the paperback and digital edition is much updated from the earlier editions of the paperback, which date from 1991 when it was a 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 new edition also includes new drug dosages plus updated guidance on plastic bag and other techniques.

The digital edition of ‘Final Exit’ contains a clearly laid out, and easy to use Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, which the reader is strongly encouraged to print and complete. The tragic lessons of Terri Schiavo’s fourteen long years trapped in a persistent vegetative state, and the ugly fight over her fate, must not be lost on us.

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."

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. There is, as yet, no simple ‘peaceful pill’ for self euthanasia, and law reform is lagging behind public opinion, so until then ‘Final Exit’ is the solution.

• Read an excerpt from ‘Final Exit’ 3rd edition.

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

‘Final Exit, Digital Edition’ and the Final Exit DVD video are a matched set and complement each other. The Final Exit DVD Video is also available on VHS.

‘Final Exit, 3rd edition’ is also available in paperback here.

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The author, Derek Humphry, who has 30 years experience in the death with dignity movement, in 1975 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, which he ran from 1980 to 1992. (Hemlock was later merged into another organization, Compassion and Choices.)

Today Humphry runs the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO), a nonprofit organization based in 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. A citizen of both the UK and USA, Humphry lives near Eugene, Oregon.

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