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We hold that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness, intractable physical pain, chronic or progressive physical disabilities, or who face loss of autonomy and selfhood through dementia, have a basic human right to choose to end their lives when they judge their quality of life to be unacceptable.
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The Good Death Society Blog A variety of authors provide...
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FEN’s Exit Guide Program educates people on ways they can...
- The Good Death Society Blog
1. Stop Therapeutic Medical Treatment. Those facing declining health or dementia who do not want their lives extended can work with their doctors and healthcare representative to tailor their healthcare choices away from extending life.
The Final Exit Network traces its history to the Hemlock Society. It was founded in 1980 primarily by British-born American journalist and author Derek Humphry, his late wife Ann Wickett Humphry, Canadian former Presbyterian minister-turned- skeptic Gerald A. Larue, [16] and psychologist Dr. Faye Girsh. [17] .
Final Exit Network, co-founded by Derek, Faye Girsh, and others from the Hemlock Society’s original leadership team, continues to directly support competent individuals facing an intolerable quality of life due to physical illness.
May 17, 2020 – The Final Exit Network is a national non-profit (501c3) that educates competent, qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives. Volunteers travel to all 50 states to facilitate this education.
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, often shortened to just Final Exit, is a 1991 book written by Derek Humphry, a British -born American journalist, author, and assisted suicide advocate who co-founded the now-defunct Hemlock Society in 1980 and co-founded the Final Exit Network in 2004.
In 2004, some former members of the Hemlock Society, notably Derek Humphry and Faye Girsh, founded the Final Exit Network, [4] [self-published source] after Humphry's 1991 book of the same name. [5] In 2004, End-of-Life Choices merged with Compassion in Dying, which is now known as Compassion & Choices .
