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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.
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]
Hemlock Society was released worldwide on 22 June 2012 opening to highly positive reviews from both the critics and audiences. [4] [5] It was a super-hit at the box office and gained a cult status in Bengali cinema. [6] It was remade into Marathi in 2015 as Welcome Zindagi. [7] [8] A sequel named Killbill Society is also in the process.
The U.S. Commerce Department said Monday it plans to award $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor to significantly expand production capacity of semiconductor-grade polysilicon as it seeks to shift ...
New Hope Audubon, the Triangle chapter of the National Audubon Society bird conservation group, changed its name Thursday after a majority membership vote. Its new name is the New Hope Bird Alliance .
World Right to Die Day is celebrated November 2 [1] in countries such as France, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and Venezuela. The celebration was founded in France at the World Federation Conference in 2008 and has since spread. The participating countries vary in their customs of celebration.