http://www.finalexit.org//ergo-store en Copyright (c) 2012 ERGO Bookstore ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) Wed, 16 May 2012 20:58:53 -0500 Zen-Cart v. 2.0.3 28.09.2007 19:21 RSS 2.0 Feed 1440 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=187 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=187 ]]>Advance Directives (eDoc PDF version) Also known as a "Living Will" 4 pages (form/document) Downloadable eDoc PDF • 16KB $5.00 • No shipping charge for downloadable PDF ES-DOC00001 Description: Wise people think ahead to their inevitable death. Will it be quick and peaceful or painful and prolonged? You hope for the best outcome, but never know. As a standby, everybody would be wise have an Advance Directive concerning their end of life care. Such documents are often called 'Living Wills' in everyday parlance. An Advance Directive helps ensure that your wishes regarding your own end-of-life care are followed, in the event that you are unable to speak for yourself, due to illness or incapacity, such as Alzheimer's Disease. ERGO offers this important document as a downloadable document (PDF) for $5.00. This particular Advance Directive concerns a person's wishes at the end of life should they become incompetent through senile dementia or Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's disease now affects 15 million globally, and nearly 5 million people in the United States, and and as many as 16 million Americans are predicted to have the disease by the year 2050. President Reagan suffered from the disease for the last ten years of his life. Alzheimer's affects about 10 percent of people over the age of 65 and by the age of 85, half the population has it. It is the ninth leading cause of death among those aged 65 and older. Fatal and incurable, Alzheimer's starts out as vague memory loss and progresses quickly. Patients lose their ability to find their way around, to recognize loved ones and eventually cannot care for themselves. Treatments can help slow the progression of the disease but cannot cure it. Named after German physician Alois Alzheimer who first described the condition in 1906, it is marked by plaques and tangles around and inside brain cells. Sometimes described as tiny 'Brillo pads', the plaques are made up of a brain protein called beta amyloid. Another protein, called tau, becomes deformed and makes up the tangles inside nerve cells. As the brain cells die, the brain shrinks and loses its wrinkly appearance. Drawn up by Faye Girsh, EdD, former chief executive of the Hemlock Society USA, the Advance Directive available through ERGO does not claim to be an enforceable legal document. It is an honest expression of a person's wishes while they still have all their marbles. Intelligent, caring people would likely respect it as a human right. Dr. Girsh calls her document "My Last Wishes (in the event of irreversible cognitive decline)" and outlines how you would wish to be treated if a brain affliction ever affected you. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=187 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:26:25 -0500 5.00 USD 187 1000 5 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/A_D_200pc_Q60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=200 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=200 ]]> Jean Murió A Su Manera (Spanish Language version of Jean's Way) by Derek Humphry $12 + shipping 170 pages • 2007 (originally published in Barcelona, Spain • 1978) ISBN 0-9768283-2-4 Published by Norris Lane Press/ERGO Spanish language version also available in eBook PDF downloadable format here(English version eBook & paperback available in Books & eBooks Categories) Description: "Jean Murió A Su Manera: Un Periodista Cuenta Cómo Facilitó La Muerte De Su Esposa Enferma" es una traducción al español del clásico de Derek Humphry "Jean's Way: A Love Story.". El libro se publicó por primera vez en l978, con gran acogida entre la crítica. Desde entonces, este libro no ha dejado de publicarse. Ha sido publicado en cinco idiomas. El libro narra la conmovedora historia de Jean Humphry, que a sus cuarenta años, en Inglaterra, lucha contra un cáncer terminal por dos años. Al acercarse el doloroso final, Jean le pide a Derek, su esposo, que le diera una sobredosis mortal, para poder morir en su hogar, llena de paz y con dignidad. Muere en brazos de su esposo, cumpliendo su voluntad de beber la pócima letal. La pareja toma esta determinación por voluntad propia, sin saber nada acerca de la filosofía de la eutanasia ni de los movimientos de suicidio asistido, que, por el año 1978, apenas comenzaban a asomar. Derek siente que, luego de 22 años de matrimonio, su esposa merece que él cumpla su voluntad. Tres años más tarde, Derek Humphry publica su autobiografía, que se convirtió en un best seller inmediatamente. La decisión de Jean de morir así, y la fama del libro, colaboraron con la promoción del movimiento moderno de derecho a morir, al plantear de manera clara el motivo y los medios para acelerar la muerte de una persona moribunda. El afamado autor Arthur Koestler ("Oscuridad a mediodía") describió el libro como la mejor publicación de ese año, llamándolo "...el derecho de las personas a morir en paz y con dignidad". Asimismo, el editor del San Francisco Examiner, Ed Orloff, escribió: "En verdad, una historia de amor tierna y no convencional, que llegará al corazón de cada lector". Puede conseguir la versión impresa de "Jean Murió A Su Manera" en ERGO Bookstore, o bien, descargarla. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=200 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:26:06 -0500 12.00 USD 200 998 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=198 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=198 ]]> FINAL EXIT ON VHS An adjunct video resource to the Final Exit book/eBook by Derek Humphry Founder of the Hemlock Society & Author of Final Exit • Length: 46:00 • English • 2006 • Norris Lane Press VHS • NTSC • $15 + shipping • Directed, written & narrated by Derek Humphry Available through the ERGO-Store. Not available in bookstores. Final Exit Video also available in DVD format Final Exit on VHS Description: The ‘Final Exit on VHS’ video is an adjunct resource to ‘Final Exit, 3rd edition book’. This guidance is for the possible use by a terminally or hopelessly ill competent adult who wishes to avoid further unrelieved pain and distress. For those who want detailed illustrated advice on how to bring their terminal suffering to a peaceful, nonviolent end, this video produced by journalist and author Derek Humphry, is a vital companion to his book 'Final Exit'. Humphry, who founded the original Hemlock Society, and ran it for its first twelve years, provided the direction and spoken voice in this video adaptation of his famous 'how-to' book which was the #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller in 1991, and which remains consistently popular today. Suicide (a.k.a. rational suicide) is no longer a crime but assisted suicide can be (except in Oregon and Washington, where doctors may do it for residents under tight guidelines), so Humphry warns about legal matters connected with voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. The video demonstrates there is no need for a Dr. Kevorkian, or any other doctor, if a careful and simple plan of action is followed by a person who wishes to handle their own euthanasia, self-deliverance, or assisted suicide. The video describes the ways to mix and ingest lethal drugs -- the so-called 'peaceful pill' method -- and closely illustrates how a dying person may have an assisted death using an inert gas available in stores, using what is is known as the ‘helium hood technique’. Final Exit on VHS 1. Introduction 2. Jean's Way 3. What Kind of Death? 4. Ask a Doctor Discreetly 5. Morphine: Patient's Best Friend 6. What Makes a Graceful Ending? 7. Advice Click here to view the chapter one video clip from ‘Final Exit on DVD’ * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * The Final Exit 3rd Edition book and the Final Exit VHS video are a complementary matched set made for each other. The Final Exit VHS Video is also available on DVD. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=198 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:46:36 -0500 15.00 USD 198 171 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/original/FE-DVD06-VHS-Front-w%20DS_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/original/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=197 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=197 ]]> FINAL EXIT ON DVD An adjunct video resource to the Final Exit book/eBook by Derek Humphry Founder of the Hemlock Society & Author of Final Exit • Length: 46:00 • English • 2006 • Norris Lane Press DVD • NTSC Region Free • $20 + shipping • Directed, written & narrated by Derek Humphry Available through the ERGO-Store. Not available in bookstores. Final Exit 2006 Video also available in VHS format Final Exit on DVD Description: The ‘Final Exit on DVD’ video is an adjunct resource to ‘Final Exit, 3rd edition book’. This guidance is for the possible use by a terminally or hopelessly ill competent adult who wishes to avoid further unrelieved pain and distress. For those who want detailed illustrated advice on how to bring their terminal suffering to a peaceful, nonviolent end, this video produced by journalist and author Derek Humphry, is a vital companion to his book 'Final Exit'. Humphry, who founded the original Hemlock Society, and ran it for its first twelve years, provided the direction and spoken voice in this video adaptation of his famous 'how-to' book which was the #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller in 1991, and which remains consistently popular today. Suicide (a.k.a. rational suicide) is no longer a crime but assisted suicide can be (except in Oregon and Washington, where doctors may do it for residents under tight guidelines), so Humphry warns about legal matters connected with voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. The video demonstrates there is no need for a Dr. Kevorkian, or any other doctor, if a careful and simple plan of action is followed by a person who wishes to handle their own euthanasia, self-deliverance, or assisted suicide. The video describes the ways to mix and ingest lethal drugs -- the so-called ‘peaceful pill’ method -- and closely illustrates how a dying person may have an assisted death using an inert gas available in stores, using what is is known as the ‘helium hood technique’. Final Exit on DVD Chapters 1. Introduction 2. Jean's Way 3. What Kind of Death? 4. Ask a Doctor Discreetly 5. Morphine: Patient's Best Friend 6. What Makes a Graceful Ending? 7. Advice Click here to view chapter one from Final Exit on DVD * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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. See the "webpage" link below for additional info on this item. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=197 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:38:09 -0500 20.00 USD 197 596 5 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/FE-DVD06-DVD-Jacket-Front_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=204 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=204 ]]> How To Make Your Own Helium Hood Kit (PDF) Information for competent adults who are terminally or hopelessly ill and wish to die Addendum to Chapter 23 of Final Exit book & Final Exit on DVD by Derek Humphry author of 'Final Exit' & founder of the Hemlock Society Revised Edition • April 2012 20 Pages • PDF Price: $5.00 ERGO/Norris Lane Press ISBN 978-0-9768283-4-1 / 0976828340 Available ONLY through the ERGO-Store in downloadable digital format. Not available in Bookstores. NOTE: Persons with severe depression or mental health problems are asked not to use ‘Final Exit’ or the information in this Addendum, but instead should seek professional psychological care. Document Description: Helium hood kits which have been used by hundreds of people who wished peacefully to end their lives because of protracted terminal or hopeless illness. Unfortunately, currently there are no reliable suppliers of the kits. Thus it is necessary to make your own kit if you wish to explore this form of self-deliverance. This right-to-die method is legal because it is not assisted suicide nor voluntary euthanasia. Derek Humphry, author of the world’s best-known how-to book on choices in dying, “Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying,” has written this detailed guide to how to make a helium hood kit. This PDF document, with illustrations, outlines the following points: • Materials and Items Needed for Helium Method • Sourcing the Parts and Materials • Location and Setup • Preparing the Tanks and Tubing • Making the “Hood” • Instructions for Hastening Death (in the event of irreversible illness that is causing unbearable suffering) • Cautions • DVD Images and Illustrations • Book and Video Resources To ensure a smooth departure, it is strongly advised that a person also carefully reads the latest revised edition of “Final Exit” book/eBook and watches “Final Exit DVD” both available at the ERGO Bookstore. * * * * * * * * * * 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.) Currently, Derek 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. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=204 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:29:53 -0500 5.00 USD 204 1000 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/original/HTMYOHHK-cover-front_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/original/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=205 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=205 ]]> Beyond ‘Final Exit’ (mini-eBook PDF) Lessons Learned: Feedback from the bestselling book now 20 years in print by Derek Humphry author of 'Final Exit' & founder of the Hemlock Society First Edition • October 2011 25 Pages • PDF eBook Price: $5.00 ERGO/Norris Lane Press ISBN 978-0-9768283-5-8 / 0976828359 Available ONLY through the ERGO-Store in downloadable digital format. Not available in Bookstores. eBook Description: The runaway bestseller ‘Final Exit’ brought its author a huge response of readers writing him with their own experiences with dying and death, sometimes involving voluntary euthanasia, assisted suicide or self-deliverance. Now, twenty years after the initial appearance of that remarkable and pioneering book, Derek Humphry relates what additionally he has learned since. This short ebook does not describe any new means or methods for peacefully ending one’s life; rather it emphasizes the need for planning and caring, and thoughtful conduct for a dying person and their family. Hasty, poorly considered ending of life is anathema to Humphry’s philosophy. ‘Beyond Final Exit’ discusses, for instance, ways in which a family could deal with a difficult dying process, the role of doctors, and whom to tell once the passing has occurred. A potted history of the famous Hemlock Society is included, as is a description of the work of Dignitas, in Switzerland, currently the only group in the world which will help foreigners to die. What we have learned from the unique Death With Dignity laws in Oregon and Washington, permitting physician-assisted suicide for the dying, is discussed. Includes a listing of the nine places which by 2011 have made law reforms to permit assisted dying. Humphry, the author of the cult classic ‘Jean’s Way’ and three other books on euthanasia, discusses the present and controversial future of the right-to-die movement which today involves the considered suicide of persons who are old and permanently sick, thus tired of life, and seek a speedy end. Perhaps, he argues, this should be made lawful after careful consideration because violent elderly suicide is already a national tragedy. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=205 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:15:16 -0600 5.00 USD 205 1000 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/original/BFE-cover-front-my_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/original/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=201 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=201 ]]> 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 July 2011 • eBook available only at the ERGO Store • eBook PDF • 750KB • 214 pages • eBook ISBN 978-0-9637280-6-7 / 0963728067 • Paperback ISBN 978-0-385-33653-6 / 0-3853365-3-5 • Price: $21.00 • No shipping charges for eBooks Purchasers of Final Exit Digital Edition - Please scroll down below the product description to read special download instructions. Note: Only MINOR formatting changes were implemented between the April 2010 (3.1b) and July 2011 (3.1c) eBook updates. No content updates. 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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. INSTANT DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: By ordering ‘Final Exit, Digital Edition’ you are granted permission to store your eBook PDF on one (1) home computer and one (1) laptop computer (if both computers owned by the same person). Permission is provided to print one single copy for your personal use. For those paying via Paypal, Google Checkout or credit card: On the very last page of the checkout process click the blue colored "Download" button to download your eBook. If you have difficulties downloading, please log out of the ERGO Store then log in again. Customers ordering via Google Checkout who choose to obscure their email address from ERGO, will receive an email from Google containing a custom generated Google checkout email address which MUST be used to log into the ERGO Store to download your eBook. If you have any questions please contact ERGO. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=201 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:00:46 -0500 21.00 USD 201 1000 2 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/FE_Digital_Edition_Final_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=182 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=182 ]]> Jean's Way: A Love Story by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society Price: $12.00 + shipping 2003 Reprint • Norris Lane Press ISBN 0-9637280-7-5 Paperback • 160 pages The moving account of a terminally ill woman's carefully planned self-deliverance from suffering. 2003 printing updated with new preface. Jean's Way Book Description: This is the true, moving account of a woman with advanced terminal illness who planned to hasten her end with the help of her husband, Derek Humphry. Not only was assisted suicide against the law but it was also a huge taboo. But Jean Humphry proceeded with her plan so that she could die in peace and dignity in her own home rather than in hospital. This was an individual decision; the couple did not know then (1975) about euthanasia and assisted suicide, which later became highly controversial as the right to die issue mushroomed. Living Wills were then just becoming known. She had suffered for more than two years from breast cancer, and now it had spread into her whole body. She decided it was her time for an assisted death. At Jean's request, Derek had secured a lethal overdose from a sympathetic doctor and stored it in a secure place in their home in Wiltshire, England. When the pain and distress became too great to bear, Jean asked for the drugs so that she could die that afternoon. When she was ready, Derek mixed the lethal potion into a mug of coffee. After saying 'Goodbye, My Love' Jean emptied the drink and died within the hour. Three years later Derek (already a journalist on the London Sunday Times and author of 'Because They're Black') published this memoir. It became a bestseller in the UK and was translated into four languages. The popularity of 'Jean's Way' started the movement to legalize assisted suicide as a choice for competent adults at the end of life. It foreshadowed the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, in the passing of which Derek was a team player. Derek founded the Hemlock Society USA to campaign for greater acceptance of justifiable assisted suicide and also wrote the international bestselling book 'Final Exit.' Both in the application of the new Oregon law and Swiss law, with legally approved ways of assisting deaths at the end of life, Jean's way is the method used. In Switzerland it is used by DIGNITAS and EXIT. Read an extract from the book Jean's Way: A Love Story Order the eBook (PDF) version of this book at Jean's Way: A Love Story (PDF eBook) See link below for more info. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=182 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:58:42 -0500 12.00 USD 182 906 5 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/jw-frnt-12-5pcQ60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=180 ]]> 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 978-0-385-33653-6 Paperback • 250 pages Price: $17.00 + shipping Autographed by the author Note: The ERGO Bookstore sells the 2010 revision of Final Exit 3rd Edition, with 13-digit ISBN. Retailers advertising the old 10-digit ISBN 0-385-33653-5 are selling the OLD edition of Final Exit from 2002. Copies of Final Exit purchased from the ERGO Store are signed 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. Final Exit 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' 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 revised third edition of 'Final Exit' (2010 revision) 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'. * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:53:45 -0500 17.00 USD 180 456 5 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/FE-front-25pcQ60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=180 ]]> 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 978-0-385-33653-6 Paperback • 250 pages Price: $17.00 + shipping Autographed by the author Note: The ERGO Bookstore sells the 2010 revision of Final Exit 3rd Edition, with 13-digit ISBN. Retailers advertising the old 10-digit ISBN 0-385-33653-5 are selling the OLD edition of Final Exit from 2002. Copies of Final Exit purchased from the ERGO Store are signed 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. Final Exit 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' 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 revised third edition of 'Final Exit' (2010 revision) 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'. * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:53:45 -0500 17.00 USD 180 456 4 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/FE-front-25pcQ60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=203 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=203 ]]> Good Life, Good Death Memoir of how a writer became an euthanasia advocate by Derek Humphry Founder of the Hemlock Society & Author of Final Exit • Norris Lane Press • Nov. 2008 • 344 pages • 19 chapters with photos • ISBN 0-9768283-3-2 / 978-0-9768283-3-4 • $12.00 + shipping Good Life, Good Death is also available as a downloadable PDF eBook Good Life, Good Death Book Description: For more than 30 years Derek Humphry has trail-blazed the right to die movement in America and the world. He founded the Hemlock Society USA, pioneered the Oregon Death With Dignity Act and wrote the bestselling books Jean’s Way and Final Exit. To know why he has maintained this struggle for choice in dying against powerful religious and political forces it is necessary to understand the whole man. In this candid memoir (a paperback original) he tells of his broken family, wartime experiences as a boy in England, and rising from the lowest to the highest rungs of journalism on two continents. He tells the moving story of his first wife’s terminal cancer and her way of ending it by assisted suicide which later became the model for the Oregon law. Painful episodes from his second marriage and the much publicized divorce are frankly detailed. Today Derek Humphry is regarded as the grand old man of a euthanasia movement in which he remains deeply involved. A dual citizen of the USA and the UK, he has lived in Oregon for 22 years. See what the book is all about by viewing this sample ‘Good Life, Good Death’ sample excerpt PDF containing pages from the book including preface, introduction, and table of contents. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=203 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:44:52 -0500 12.00 USD 203 957 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/GLGD-cover-front_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=194 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=194 ]]>The Good Euthanasia Guide: Where, What, and Who in Choices in Dying by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit • Paperback • 220 pages • English • 2008 edition • Norris Lane Press • ISBN 978-0-9768283-1-0 • 0-9637280-8-3 • Price: $16.00 + shipping NOTE: The downloadable eBook PDF version of this same book is available through ERGO-Store at The Good Euthanasia Guide (eBook) The Good Euthanasia Guide (2008) Book Description: Updated 2008 edition of this unique euthanasia desk reference book for those who wish to know more about common sense choices in dying at the end of life. A companion book to the New York Times bestselling ‘how-to-do-it-yourself’ "Final Exit", the "The Good Euthanasia Guide" is a 'where-to' and 'why' book containing 220 pages of vital, diverse information about self-deliverance, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. "The Good Euthanasia Guide" is inspired by the likes of ‘where-to’ books such as "The Good Restaurant Guide" and "Good Hotel Guide." Summary of content: • Chronicle of events in the right-to-die sphere dating from 1906 to 2008. This chronicle compiled by author Derek Humphry will not be found anywhere else. It is an essential for any serious student of euthanasia. • Constructive analysis of the work done in the 1990s by Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping those who wanted suicide to end their suffering. • How the Hemlock Society came to abrupt end in a take-over after 23 years and the future of the right-to-die movement is reported upon. • An annotated list of every right-to-die group in the world. • Descriptions of the assisted suicide laws in almost every country. Describes in detail how aid-in-dying laws are functioning in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon. • Details about the remarkable work done by Dignitas and EXIT in Switzerland are reported. • Filmography, listing every major movie and TV film which involves death with dignity issues. • Bibliography of the most important books on the subject. Reuters news agency wrote about this book: “Inspired by guide books for the discerning customer.” ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=194 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:43:41 -0500 16.00 USD 194 647 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/GEG-front-12pc-Q60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=186 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=186 ]]>Let Me Die Before I Wake (eBook) by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society Price: $7.00 • No shipping charge on eBook PDF's Downloadable eBook PDF format • 1.5MB 177 pages • Norris Lane Press (Previously published by Dell in 1986) eBook ISBN 978-0-9768283-2-7 • 0-9768283-2-4 Paperback ISBN 978-0-9637280-5-0 • 0-9637280-5-9 Available ONLY through the ERGO Store in eBook PDF format only. The paperback edition is out of print. • Description: This book contains the true stories of persons dying of a terminal or hopeless illness and how they achieved their desired assisted death. It was written by journalist and author Derek Humphry ten years before his famous 'how-to' bestseller 'Final Exit'; nevertheless Let Me Die contains crucial drug, technical and personal information needed for successful euthanasia. Let Me Die was the main publication of the original Hemlock Society and has helped thousands to achieve the right to die in peace and dignity. It has been factually updated and extended over time in new editions. "But the good advice on assisted death within the book never dates," said author Humphry. In this book the author argues that bringing about a self euthanasia is more than popping deadly pills: it concerns also family inter-personal relationships, ways to avoid legal troubles, and how not to botch what should be a peaceful and dignified death. Legally the action is a 'suicide' but the word more appropriately used by many persons is 'self-deliverance' because this action is a deliberate exit at the end of life. So-called 'Living Wills' (Advance Directives) are advocated and discussed in the book. Such documents are a useful backup for ensuring the right to die. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=186 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:01:05 -0600 7.00 USD 186 1000 4 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/LetMeDie-19pcQ60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=185 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=185 ]]> Jean's Way: A Love Story by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society Downloadable eBook PDF Format • (1.1MB) Price: $6.00 No shipping charge on eBook PDF's 2003 Reprint • Norris Lane Press eBook ISBN 978-0-9637280-2-9 • 0-9637280-2-4 Paperback ISBN 978-0-9637280-7-4 • 0-9637280-7-5 ebook PDF • 160 pages The moving account of a terminally ill woman's carefully planned self-deliverance from suffering. 2003 printing updated with new preface. Description: This is the true, moving account of a woman with advanced terminal illness who planned to hasten her end with the help of her husband, Derek Humphry. Not only was assisted suicide against the law but it was also a huge taboo. But Jean Humphry proceeded with her plan so that she could die in peace and dignity in her own home rather than in hospital. This was an individual decision; the couple did not know then (1975) about euthanasia and assisted suicide, which later became highly controversial as the right to die issue mushroomed. Living Wills were then just becoming known. She had suffered for more than two years from breast cancer, and now it had spread into her whole body. She decided it was her time for an assisted death. At Jean's request, Derek had secured a lethal overdose from a sympathetic doctor and stored it in a secure place in their home in Wiltshire, England. When the pain and distress became too great to bear, Jean asked for the drugs so that she could die that afternoon. When she was ready, Derek mixed the lethal potion into a mug of coffee. After saying 'Goodbye, My Love' Jean emptied the drink and died within the hour. Three years later Derek (already a journalist on the London Sunday Times and author of 'Because They're Black') published this memoir. It became a bestseller in the UK and was translated into four languages. The popularity of 'Jean's Way' started the movement to legalize assisted suicide as a choice for competent adults at the end of life. It foreshadowed the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, in the passing of which Derek was a team player. Derek founded the Hemlock Society USA to campaign for greater acceptance of justifiable assisted suicide and also wrote the international bestselling book 'Final Exit.' Both in the application of the new Oregon law and Swiss law, with legally approved ways of assisting deaths at the end of life, Jean's way is the method used. In Switzerland it is used by DIGNITAS and EXIT. Read an extract from the book Jean's Way: A Love Story Order a printed version of this book at Jean's Way: A Love Story (printed version) See link below for more info. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=185 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:23:13 -0600 6.00 USD 185 1000 5 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/jw-frnt-12-5pcQ60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=202 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=202 ]]> Good Life, Good Death (eBook PDF) Memoir of how a writer became an euthanasia advocate by Derek Humphry Founder of the Hemlock Society & Author of Final Exit • Norris Lane Press • Nov. 2008 • 344 pages • 19 chapters with photos • 3.85 MB eBook PDF • eBook ISBN 978-0-9637280-9-8 / 0-9637280-9-1 • Paperback ISBN 978-0-9768283-3-4 / 0-9768283-3-2 • $8.00 • No shipping charge for eBooks ‘Good Life, Good Death’ is also available as a paperback Good Life, Good Death Book Description: For more than 30 years Derek Humphry has trail-blazed the right to die movement in America and the world. He founded the Hemlock Society USA, pioneered the Oregon Death With Dignity Act and wrote the bestselling books Jean’s Way and Final Exit. To know why he has maintained this struggle for choice in dying against powerful religious and political forces it is necessary to understand the whole man. In this candid memoir (a paperback original) he tells of his broken family, wartime experiences as a boy in England, and rising from the lowest to the highest rungs of journalism on two continents. He tells the moving story of his first wife’s terminal cancer and her way of ending it by assisted suicide which later became the model for the Oregon law. Painful episodes from his second marriage and the much publicized divorce are frankly detailed. Today Derek Humphry is regarded as the grand old man of a euthanasia movement in which he remains deeply involved. A dual citizen of the USA and the UK, he has lived in Oregon for 22 years. See what the book is all about by viewing this sample ‘Good Life, Good Death’ sample excerpt PDF containing pages from the book including preface, introduction, and table of contents. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=202 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:12:05 -0600 8.00 USD 202 1000 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/GLGD_halfpage2_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=193 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=193 ]]> The Good Euthanasia Guide: Where, What, and Who in Choices in Dying (eBook PDF format) by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit • 2008 edition • Norris Lane Press • eBook PDF format • 715KB • 220 pages • eBook ISBN 978-0-9637280-4-3 / 0-9637280-4-0 • Paperback ISBN 978-0-9768283-1-0 / 0-9768283-1-6 • Price: $10.00 • No shipping charge for eBooks NOTE: This a downloadable eBook PDF. The printed paperback version of this same book is available through ERGO-Store at The Good Euthanasia Guide (paperback) The Good Euthanasia Guide (2008) Book Description: Updated 2008 edition of this unique euthanasia desk reference book for those who wish to know more about common sense choices in dying at the end of life. A companion book to the New York Times bestselling ‘how-to-do-it-yourself’ "Final Exit", the "The Good Euthanasia Guide" is a 'where-to' and 'why' book containing 220 pages of vital, diverse information about self-deliverance, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. "The Good Euthanasia Guide" is inspired by the likes of ‘where-to’ books such as "The Good Restaurant Guide" and "Good Hotel Guide." Summary of content: • Chronicle of events in the right-to-die sphere dating from 1906 to 2008. This chronicle compiled by author Derek Humphry will not be found anywhere else. It is an essential for any serious student of euthanasia. • Constructive analysis of the work done in the 1990s by Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping those who wanted suicide to end their suffering. • How the Hemlock Society came to abrupt end in a take-over after 23 years and the future of the right-to-die movement is reported upon. • An annotated list of every right-to-die group in the world. • Descriptions of the assisted suicide laws in almost every country. Describes in detail how aid-in-dying laws are functioning in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon. • Details about the remarkable work done by Dignitas and EXIT in Switzerland are reported. • Filmography, listing every major movie and TV film which involves death with dignity issues. • Bibliography of the most important books on the subject. Reuters news agency wrote about this book: “Inspired by guide books for the discerning customer.” ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=193 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:04:47 -0600 10.00 USD 193 1002 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/GEG-front-12pc-Q60_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=192 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=192 ]]>NOTE: This info is also available in an easier to read format on the ERGO Contribution/Donation form web page. SUPPORT ERGO Help ERGO In Its Work To Achieve Choices In Dying Running a nonprofit organization with worldwide visibility like ERGO requires funding for research and education. ERGO needs support from people like you. Find out how you can help to further the cause of choice in dying. As one example of our work, every day ERGO responds to dozens of students who approach us for information for their school projects. And our international electronic mailing list that is sent to more than 700 organizations and people requires hours of work and constant expenditure on systems and software. ERGO is an active and financially supportive member of the New Technology Research Group (NuTech) trying to find legal, painless ways of self-deliverance. If you would like to help support ERGO, your contribution would be tax-deductible to the fullest extent of American law. The Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization is a tax-exempt and tax-deductible Oregon corporation and is 501(c)(3)H of the IRS tax code. ID number 93-1118314. Please make a contribution to support the educational and research work of ERGO. Thank You. Derek Humphry President, ERGO ergo@finalexit.org 15 December 2010 There are several ways you can contribute to ERGO: 1. You can then contribute securely online right here at the ERGO Store, with a credit card (via Google Checkout or Paypal), e-check, PayPal payment or regular check or money order. Select your contribution amount from the drop down list and then click the "add to cart" button. (You will will be prompted to login to the ERGO-Store if you have not done so or prompted to create an account. Note: you can pay via Google Checkout without creating an ERGO Store account. 2. Currently the ERGO-Store is only set-up to process contributions in the amounts listed in the adjacent drop down list. If you would like to make a contribution in an alternative amount, or if you prefer to mail in your contribution, please visit the ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=192 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:47:51 -0600 USD 192 869 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/Contribute_to_ERGO_H300_LRG.gif http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=199 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=199 ]]> Jean Murió A Su Manera (eBook PDF) (Spanish Language version of Jean's Way) by Derek Humphry $6 eBook (PDF download format) • 13.2MB 170 pages • 2007 (originally published in Barcelona, Spain • 1978) ISBN 0-9768283-2-4 Published by Norris Lane Press/ERGO Note: This a large PDF file and may take a bit to download for dial-up subscribers. Spanish language version also available in paperback here(English version eBook & paperback available in Books & eBooks Categories) Description: "Jean Murió A Su Manera: Un Periodista Cuenta Cómo Facilitó La Muerte De Su Esposa Enferma" es una traducción al español del clásico de Derek Humphry "Jean's Way: A Love Story.". El libro se publicó por primera vez en l978, con gran acogida entre la crítica. Desde entonces, este libro no ha dejado de publicarse. Ha sido publicado en cinco idiomas. El libro narra la conmovedora historia de Jean Humphry, que a sus cuarenta años, en Inglaterra, lucha contra un cáncer terminal por dos años. Al acercarse el doloroso final, Jean le pide a Derek, su esposo, que le diera una sobredosis mortal, para poder morir en su hogar, llena de paz y con dignidad. Muere en brazos de su esposo, cumpliendo su voluntad de beber la pócima letal. La pareja toma esta determinación por voluntad propia, sin saber nada acerca de la filosofía de la eutanasia ni de los movimientos de suicidio asistido, que, por el año 1978, apenas comenzaban a asomar. Derek siente que, luego de 22 años de matrimonio, su esposa merece que él cumpla su voluntad. Tres años más tarde, Derek Humphry publica su autobiografía, que se convirtió en un best seller inmediatamente. La decisión de Jean de morir así, y la fama del libro, colaboraron con la promoción del movimiento moderno de derecho a morir, al plantear de manera clara el motivo y los medios para acelerar la muerte de una persona moribunda. El afamado autor Arthur Koestler ("Oscuridad a mediodía") describió el libro como la mejor publicación de ese año, llamándolo "...el derecho de las personas a morir en paz y con dignidad". Asimismo, el editor del San Francisco Examiner, Ed Orloff, escribió: "En verdad, una historia de amor tierna y no convencional, que llegará al corazón de cada lector". Puede conseguir la versión impresa de "Jean Murió A Su Manera" en ERGO Bookstore, o bien, descargarla. ]]> ergo-store-support@finalexit.org (ERGO Bookstore) http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=199 Thu, 17 May 2007 03:41:49 -0500 6.00 USD 199 1000 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/large/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a_LRG.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/images/jw_sp_frnt_Q40_a.jpg http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=189 http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/index.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=189 ]]>NOTE: This info is also available in an easier to read format on the ERGO Membership form web page. Please Join ERGO (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization) Help ERGO in its work to achieve "Choices in Dying". Help with scientific research into self-deliverance. Running a nonprofit organization with worldwide visibility like ERGO requires support from people like you. ERGO Membership: minimum annual dues $25 (USD) As one example of our work, every day ERGO responds to dozens of students who approach us for information for their school projects. And our international electronic mailing list that is sent to more than 1,000 organizations and people requires hours of work and constant expenditure on systems and software. ERGO is now the chief financial sponsor of the New Technology Research Group (NuTech) which is trying to find legal, painless ways of self-deliverance from a terminal or hopeless illness. (End-of-Life Choices - Hemlock as was - has from 2004 withdrawn its financial support of NuTech.) A spate of mergers is diluting the backbone of a once progressive movement. Without ERGO's help the search for the 'peaceful pill' and other ways for self-deliverance will come to a halt. ERGO wishes to see physician-assisted suicide become lawful everywhere, but until that day some people want to know how to end it themselves. Anyway, even under a legal system not everybody qualifies for medical assistance. ERGO will fight for that right to be in command of one's death. But it requires knowledge. Thus we are turning ERGO from a supporters' organization to a membership organization. Annual membership fee is a minimum of $25 or whatever you might wish to pay above that. While you are joining ERGO please also consider subscribing to ERGO's International Right-to-Die News Service mailing list (free listserv). Subscribe to the list and/or obtain more information by visiting the ERGO Right-to-Die News web page. Please join ERGO. Thank You. Derek Humphry President, ERGO ergo@finalexit.org December 18, 2006 ERGO membership is only $25 annually but please make an extra contribution with your membership if you can. Although your $25 annual ERGO membership is not tax-deductible, contributions above and beyond the membership fee are tax-deductible. There are several ways you can join ERGO: 1. 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