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The Hemlock Society (sometimes called Hemlock Society USA) was an American right-to-die and assisted suicide advocacy organization which existed from 1980 to 2003, and took its name from the hemlock plant Conium maculatum, a highly poisonous herb in the carrot family, as a direct reference to the method by which the Athenian philosopher Socrates took his life in 399 BC, as described in Plato's ...
Compassion & Choices is the successor to the Hemlock Society, [3] [better source needed] and Compassion In Dying Federation; the organizations merged in 2007. The organization has a staff of 80 people located across the country.
Derek Humphry (29 April 1930 – 2 January 2025) was a British and American journalist and author. He was a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die.In 1980 he co-founded the Hemlock Society, and in 2004 after the Society dissolved, he co-founded Final Exit Network.
In fact, Pierce County is one of three counties in the state most impacted by poison hemlock, alongside Whatcom and Columbia counties according to a statewide distribution map from the Washington ...
Final Exit Network was founded in 2004 by former members of the Hemlock Society, including that organization's co-founders, Derek Humphry and Dr. Faye Girsh. [5] It was named after Humphry's 1991 book of the same name. [6] It is a member of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. [7]
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It’s the substance that killed the Greek philosopher Socrates and, in 2010, a Tacoma woman. Now a patch of poison hemlock will force the temporary closure of a Lakewood dog park in order to ...
Hemlock Fairground is a national historic district and fairground located at Hemlock in Livingston County, New York. The district covers 35.6 acres (144,000 m 2) with five contributing buildings and one contributing object, the racetrack. There are two clusters of buildings near the racetrack.