Assesses the pros and cons of euthanasia and examines significant legal and medical precedents that affect the right to die, in a treatment that covers active and passive euthanasia and suicide

The right to die: Understanding euthanasia

Derek Humphry

Ann, Wickett

Harper&Row

Stated First Edition (and first printing with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight &amp; square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean beige endpapers; no names, writing or marks.372 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, no chips, enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Takes a hard look at one of today's most controversial issues and the moral, ethical and legal questions surrounding it.

The Right to Die Understanding Euthanosia

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Jean's Way

Arts & Photography

Music

Quartet Books

The original pub. of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people with terminal illness a choice on how -- & when -- to end their suffering. It helped thousands by giving clear instructions to doctors, nurses, & families on how to handle a patient's request for euthanasia. This revised 2nd edition goes far beyond the original to provide new info. about the legality of euthanasia & assisted suicide, & a thoughtful examination of the personal issues involved. This is the essential source to help loved ones & supportive doctors remain within existing laws & keep a person's dying intimate, private, & dignified. Explains a better alternative to a living will; updates where to get proper drugs & how to carry out the quickest, most peaceful way to make a final exit.

Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance & Assisted Suicide for the Dying

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Diane Pub Co.

The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller that has the world talking--a practical guide for the terminally ill to dying with dignity through assisted suicide. Finally available in paperback, this considerate book is for mature adults who are considering the option of ending their lives because of unbearable pain or terminal illness.

Final Exit - The Practicalities Of Self-deliverance And Assisted Suicide For The Dying

Hemlock Society U. S. A.

Humphry's previous book, the bestseller "Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance & Assisted Suicide for the Dying", brought the right to die to the moral & political forefront. This book puts the somewhat confusing ethics & legality of the right to die in perspective & serves as an important companion volume to Final Exit. Humphry, founder of the Nat. Hemlock Soc., helps readers work their way through the labyrinth of complex issues which comprise the subject. He also discusses the effect that major mercy killing cases have had -- involving individuals like Roswell Gilbert, Dr. Peter Rosier, Nancy Cruzan, & Karen Ann Quinlan -- & the lessons these cases have taught.

Dying With Dignity: Understanding Euthanasia

In the U.S. it remains a crime for anybody to actively assist another person to die whatever the circumstances, even if their dying happens to be painfully prolonged. Humphry analyzes why the attempts so far to reform the law (chiefly in Washington state & California) have failed. This book points a new direction for voluntary euthanasia by emphasizing ethical & practical guidelines to prevent abuse, drawing on the Dutch experience. The unique legal guidelines set up in 1993 by Parliament in the Netherlands are reprinted in full. A uniform, model 'Death With Dignity Act' completes the vital information which every person interested in a human death needs to know.

Lawful Exit: The Limits of Freedom for Help in Dying

Norris Lane Press

A unique desk reference book for the world right-to-die movement. All organizations with contact details, the laws, a bibliography, a filmography and chronology of important events in euthanasia and assisted suicide. Edited by Derek Humphry, president of the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO) "

The Good Euthanasia Guide: Where, what, and who in choices in dying by Derek Humphry (2005-06-05)

For more than 30 years Derek Humphry has trail-blazed the right to die movement in America. He founded the Hemlock Society USA, pioneered the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, and wrote the best selling 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 memoir he tells of his broken family, his wartime experiences as a boy in England, and rising from the lowest to the highest rungs of journalism on two continents. Today Derek is regarded as the grand old man of a euthanasia movement in which he remains deeply involved.

Good Life, Good Death: Memoir of an investigative reporter and pro-choice advocate

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