Final Exit: Dying with Dignity

Derek Humphry, 1991, 1996, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, New York: Dell Publishing. 2nd ed.

Derek Humphry, 1992, Dying with Dignity: Understanding Euthanasia, Secaucas, NJ: Carol Publishing Group


Derek Humphry caused a national sensation in the United States when he published Final Exit in which he argues that everyone has a right to die and has a right to ask others to help them to die. Humphry's personal experience when his first wife, Jean, who was suffering from terminal breast cancer and asked him to help her die affected him deeply.

After her death in 1975, he started the National Hemlock Society in 1980 which lobbies for legalisation of euthanasia and a 'right to die' movement.





Humphry's second book, Dying with Dignity serves as a companion to Final Exit in which he presented a 'systematic' considerations for the right-to-die movement.

Humphry writes a blog,Assisted-Suicide Blog.