Euthanasia's most famous textbook

Final Exit

3rd, Revised edition, 2003, ISBN 0385336535
by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society

How to end your life if terminally ill and the suffering is unbearable? This is the essential guidebook. First published in 1991, and since updated, Final Exit has helped thousands of people worldwide to deal with painful, distressing end-of-life situations. It provides patients with control and choice.

This unique book started out as a bestseller (18 weeks on the New York Times list) and continues to sell an average of 1,400 copies every month in North America, serving an important need for people with terminal illness to have options about their end. It is also available in every major language. It is the only book on the open book trade market which gives guidance to dying people on accelerated death to avoid further suffering.

This book is only for rational adults with a terminal or irreversible physical illness involving great suffering. It is not intended for persons with depression, or mental health problems, who should look to other sources for help. Neither does it moralize.

It is available in bookstores, in libraries, or by mail order (see below).

The author, Derek Humphry, has twenty years experience in the euthanasia field. He started the Hemlock Society in 1980 and also the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organiazation in 1993. He was president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies 1988-90. Earlier Derek was a veteran investigative reporter for the London Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times before taking up the right-to-die campaign.

He wrote "Jean's Way " and four other books on this issue, including "Let Me Die Before I Wake", his first `how-to' book which has sold thousands of copies since 1981.

NOTE: Final Exit is a `nuts and bolts' book on how to end your life when in unbearable, incurable suffering. It has been variously described as "the ultimate `how-to' book" and also as "the manual of suicide". It is neither an academic tome, theory, nor guesswork, but the product of 20 years of firsthand experience, study, observation, and feedback.

The English language editions are printed in large type for easier reading. It is also available in ten of the world's major languages through the book trade.

pFinalExit - The VideoFinal Exit Sample Chapters
  • Chapter 2: Beware of the Law
  • Chapter 4: Hospice Option
  • Chapter 5: Cyanide Enigma
  • Chapter 7: Bizarre Ways
  • Chapter 9: Self-starvation
  • Chapter 12: Who Shall Know?
  • Chapter 18: How do you get the magic pills?
  • Chapter 23: Checklist and drug dosage table

How to Get the Book

The book is easily obtainable throughout the world at bookstores, by mail order, or can be borrowed in libraries.

    From Publishers:

  • USA & Canada: Dell paperbacks, NY. $12.95 US/$17.95 CDN. ISBN 0440507855
  • Britain and former colonies: Dell Paperbacks, London.
  • Australia and New Zealand: Penguin Books, Melbourne.
    (in Australia, Final Exit is Category One Restricted = not available to persons under 18 years)

    Translations:

  • Italian: Eutanasia: Uscita Di Sicurezza. (Eleuthera, Milano) ISBN 88-85861-25-3
  • Japanese: Final Exit (Tokuma Shotton, Tokyo)
  • Portugese #1: Derradeira Solucao (Puma Editora, Lisbon) ISBN 972-9469-26-3
  • German: In Wurde Sterben (Carlsen, Hamburg) ISBN 3-551-85001-1.
  • Portugese #2: A Solucao Final (Civilizacao Brasileira) ISBN 85-200-0145
  • Polish: Pstateczne Wyjscie (Stamari, Warsaw)
  • Chinese:Final Exit (Independent Evening News, Taiwan) ISBN 957-596-162-5
  • Spanish: Ultima Recurso (Tusquets, Barcelona) ISBN 8-7223-500-9
  • Danish: Sidste Udveij (Lindhardt og Rinhof, Copenhagen) ISBN 87-595-0222-3
  • Dutch: Waardig Sterven (Mets,Amsterdam) ISBN 90-5330-041-4
  • French: Exit Final (Le Jour, Editeur, Montréal) ISBN 2-890-4438-4
    The French translation is banned by law in France but is sold in French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland, and in Canada.

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To order Final Exit 3rd Edition by Mail:

In the U.S.A.
Send $22 to the address below for immediate return by air-mail. Check or money order.
In Canada
Send $26 Canadian
In Britain, Australia and all other countries
Send cheque or money order for $27 U.S.
Overseas checks must be drawn on an American bank.

ERGO: 24829 Norris Lane, Junction City, Oregon 97448, USA

For fastest service, order through the ERGO bookstore www.finalexit.org/ergo-store

Paperback or digital download immediately available.


The Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization is an Oregon not-for-profit registered corporation. U.S.A. Federal Tax I.D. # 93-1118314. Phone/Fax (541) 998-1873.

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