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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.
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Cases of people choosing assisted suicide programs have been met with some controversy in the media and public. One famous case is that of Brittany Maynard.She was diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer and chose to end her life, but before doing so, she chose to speak out about her situation and her choice, thus opening up the debate about the right-to-die movement in America.
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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