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Derek Humphry's Documents
Laws in Place on Right to Die
Briefing on what laws pertaining to 'right to die' are in place in the world, and those in the works
Category:Government DocsReads:548Uploaded:10 / 13 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionDear Inquirer 2009 Word
A swift and precise briefing on EUTHANASIA and ASSISTED SUICIDE for researchers and students
Category:Health & MedicineReads:368Uploaded:10 / 06 / 2009ShareAdd to collection25 Books That Leave a Legacy
25 Books that leave a legacy USA Today Books tell a story — about our reading preferences, certainly, but also about what's happening in our world. USA TODAY's book editors and critics chose 25 titles that made an impact on readers and the publishing industry over the past quarter-century. # 25 Final Exit By Derek Humphry (1991) The topic of assisted suicide exploded in controversy in the ’90s, thanks to Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine and this how-to manual by a
Category:(not categorized)Reads:302Uploaded:10 / 02 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionMY CREDO - Put Briefly
My credo - put briefly: Why doctors should be allowed I to help terminally ill patients to die t would be a great comfort to people who face terminal or hopeless illness to know they could get help to die if their suffering became unbearable. All pain cannot be controlled and it is arrogant for anybody to say that it can. Anyway, thoughts of an accelerated death have more to do with quality of life of the patient. And that is absolutely their personal decision. It isnonsense to say that deat
Category:(not categorized)Reads:304Uploaded:09 / 18 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionAn unsual memoir, from Derek Humphry
Best selling author Derek Humphry relates his life story as a campaigner, journalist, founder of the Hemlock Society, pioneer of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, and the inside story on his three marriages.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:513Uploaded:07 / 18 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionGroup Responsibility for an Assisted Death
When a family member, or dear friend, is dying it sometimes helps if the family talks over how to deal with the situation, however sad, so that there is less likely to be guilt or recriminations later on.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:321Uploaded:07 / 17 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionA Charter for the Right to Choose to Die
A manifesto of the general principles of the right to choose to die of a competent adult whose suffering is prolonged and unbearable. By Derek Humphry, journalist and author.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:558Uploaded:07 / 12 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionHemlock Society -- Past and Present
The history of the famous Hemlock Society USA -- its past and its present.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:2,197Uploaded:07 / 08 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionDignitas Guidelines 2009
The conditions needed to consider a visit to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland where foreigners may be accepted for an assisted death. 'Walk-ins' not allowed!
Category:Health & MedicineReads:1,981Uploaded:07 / 06 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionChoices in Dying
How a terminally ill, competent adult may secure equipment for help in choosing to accelerate their demise so as to end prolonged suffering
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:12,739Uploaded:05 / 30 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
