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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER FOREWORD BY BETTY ROLLIN and Assisted Suicide for the Dying “Straightforward...speaks to a growing concern of most Americans.” — Newsweek DEREK HUMPHRY Author of Jean\s Way and Let Me Die Before I Wake STOP! CALL! TALK! If you are considering ending your life because of depression or inability to cope with life, please call one or more of the telephone numbers listed here. They may be able to help you through the crisis. SUICIDE HOTLINES American Association of Suicidology.1-303-692-0985 Available 9:00-5:00 MST, M-F. Provides information and referrals concern¬ ing suicide prevention. Also provides information for reports on suicide. National Hotline for Young Persons.1-800-621-4000 Canada: Kids Help Phone.1-800-668-6868 Statewide/County 800 Crisis Lines Alabama.1-800-932-0501 Minnesota 1 -800-356-9588 Arkansas.1 -800-467-4673 1 -800-462-5525 1 -800-825-6737 1-800-223-4512 Arizona.1-800-293-1749 Missouri. 1-800-223-5176 Nevada. 1 -800-992-5757 California.1-800-852-8336 1 -800-444-9999 Nebraska. 1 -800-638-4357 San Diego County.. 1-800-479-3339 New Hampshire 1 -800-852-3323 Slo County.1-800-549-8989 1 -800-852-3388 Delaware.1-800-345-6785 New Mexico. 1-800-432-2159 New York 1 -800-262-9800 Wayne County. 1-800-333-0542 1 -800-652-2929 North Carolina. 1 -800-672-2903 Florida North Dakota. 1-800-638-4357 Monroe County 1 -800-228-5463 1-800-471-2911 Illinois.1 -800-638-4357 Ohio. 1-800-523-4146 McLean County.1 -800-322-5015 Wood County. 1-800-872-9411 Indiana.1 -800-832-5378 Portage County. 1 -800-533-4357 1 -800-552-3106 Lawrence County.. 1 -800-448-2273 -800-537-1302 1 Oklahoma. 1 -800-522-8336 Iowa.1 -800-638-4357 Oregon. 1 -800-452-3669 1 -800-356-9588 Rhode Island. 1 -800-365-4044 Kentucky.1 -800-562-8909 South Carolina. 1 -800-922-2283 1 -800-262-7491 South Dakota. 1 -800-638-4357 1 -800-221-0446 Texas. 1 -800-692-4039 1 -800-822-5902 Utah. 1 -800-626-8399 1 -800-592-3980 Virginia. 1 -800-768-2273 -800-422-1060 1 1-800-251-7596 Maine.1 -800-431-7810 Washington. 1-800-244-7414 1 -800-452-1933 1-800-572-8122 1 -800-432-7805 Wisconsin. 1 -800-362-8255 Maryland.1 -800-422-0009 1 -800-638-4357 1 -800-540-5806 OR: Michigan.1 -800-322-0444 1 -800-442-7315 Consult the Yellow Pages under and (313) omy: 1 -800-462-6350 “Hotlines” or “Crisis Intervention.” High Praise for FINAL EXIT “No decent human being would allow an animal to suffer with¬ out putting it out of its misery. It is only to human beings that human beings are so cruel as to allow them to live on in pain, in hopelessness, in living death, without moving a muscle to help them. It is against such attitudes that this book fights.” —Isaac Asimov (author) “Worldwide, the death rate is one per person. Final Exit gives us some important options to this inevitable event.” —Richard D. Lamm (Governor) “Some people want to eke out every second of life—no matter how grim—and that is their right. But others do not. And that should be their right. Until it is, until there is a law which would allow physicians to help people who want a final exit, here is Derek Humphry’s book, fittingly named, to guide them.” —Betty Rollin (author, Last Wish) “Nobody else could have done this book. It’s the first of its kind in America. People in both the present and future will be in Derek Humphry’s debt.” —Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher (theologian) “Derek Humphry has condensed fifteen years of exploring the issue of euthanasia in an honest, clear, compelling book for those who seek the knowledge that will assure them a good way through this final passage, should it become necessary.” —Dr. Frederick R. Abrams (physician and ethicist) “An important indictment of medical practice, legal judgment, and of the culture at large for failing to find a way to protect people against unwanted suffering and lingering death in the company of strangers. . . . This book deserves extensive pub¬ licity and consideration for what it means to respect people’s choices about dying.” —American Journal of Law and Medicine Other books by Derek Humphry EUTHANASIA * Jean’s Way The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia *Let Me Die Before / Wake Dying with Dignity GENERAL Because They’re Black (Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, 1972) Passports and Politics Police Power and Black People The Cricket Conspiracy False Messiah * Available from Dell F i l Exit n a The pRACTicAlmEs of seIF'cIeUverance ancI AssisTEd suicide For ThE dyirsic, D H p e r e k u m h Ry A Dell Trade Paperback A DELL TRADE PAPERBACK Published by Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 666 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10103 If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.” Introduction to the Paperback Edition, Euthanasia in Practice, Appendices A-D copyright © 1992 by Derek Humphry Copyright © 1991 by Derek Humphry Foreword copyright © 1991 by Betty Rollin All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. For information address: The Hemlock Society, P.O. Box 11830, Eugene, Oregon 97440-3900 The trademark Dell® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. ISBN: 0-440-50488-0 Reprinted by arrangement with the author Printed in the United States of America Published simultaneously in Canada September 1992 10 987654321 BVG For Joseph F. Fletcher, Pioneer Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 https://archive.org/details/finalexitpracticaOOhump ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have been rich in helpers to produce this book. My colleagues at Hemlock, Cheryl K. Smith, Kristin A. Larson, and Michele A. Trepkowski have been constructively critical and supportive. Sound advice has come from Warren Sparks, Gerald A. Larue, David B. Clarke, Pieter Admiraal, and many others. I take responsibility for all errors and opinions within. AUTHOR’S NOTE As many of the readers of this book will be people with poor sight, it has been set in large type to assist them. Also, this book assumes the reader’s ethical acceptance of the right to choose to die when terminally ill and thus the arguments for and against are not addressed. The history and controversy of this issue can be found in The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia and Dying with Dignity. .
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