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Derek Humphry was born on 29 April, 1930 in Bath, England, is an Euthanasia activist and writer. Discover Derek Humphry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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1930

Derek Humphry (born 29 April 1930) is a British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die.

1975

His first wife, Jean Humphry, ended her life on 29 March 1975, in the Cotswolds with her husband at her side, with an intentional overdose of medication; she was suffering from terminal bone cancer.

He told that story from his perspective in the best-selling Jean's Way.

Derek and Jean Humphry had three sons, the youngest one an adoptee.

1978

He is the author of several related books, including Jean's Way (1978), The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia (1986), and Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (1991).

Since 1978, Derek Humphry has lived in the United States.

Born to a British father and an Irish mother, he was raised in Somerset.

His education was slender because of a broken home followed by World War II, when many English schools were in chaos, finally leaving at the age of 15, when he became a messenger boy for the Yorkshire Post.

In a 30-year journalistic career Humphry worked and wrote for the Bristol Evening World, the Manchester Evening News, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Times and, lastly, the Los Angeles Times.

1980

In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolved, he co-founded Final Exit Network.

1988

From 1988 to 1990, he was president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and is the current president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO).

1989

His marriage to his next wife, Ann Wickett, an American and a co-founder of the Hemlock Society, ended in 1989 when she filed for divorce; they had no children.

1990

In early 1990 Humphry married Gretchen Crocker, youngest daughter of an Oregon farming family.

Humphry is an advisor to the World Federation of Right to Die Societies by virtue of his past presidency and in appreciation of his 26 years of involvement with that organization.

1991

Humphry wrote the 1991 suicide handbook, Final Exit.

Ann Wickett committed suicide during a recurrence of depression at the age of 49 on 2 October 1991.

She had been battling breast cancer, but the cancer was reportedly in remission.

It has sold more than one million copies in twelve languages since 1991.

1993

From 1993 onwards Humphry has been president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO), and chairs the advisory board of the new Final Exit Network (formed 2004 to replace the Hemlock Society dissolved the previous year in mergers).

2004

Since it was founded in 2004, Humphry has been an adviser to the Final Exit Network.

After four members of the organization were accused in Georgia of assisting a suicide he launched the Final Exit Liberty Fund which paid most of their legal costs.

2007

In April 2007 the editors and book critics of USA Today selected Final Exit as one of the most memorable 25 books of the last quarter century.

2014

In 2014 Derek Humphry was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Federation of Right To Die Societies for "contributing so much, so long and so courageously to our right to a peaceful death."

The award was presented by the organization's president, Faye Girsh, at its 20th international conference in Chicago in 2014.

It was the first time this award had been made.

Humphry was newsletter editor for the World Federation of Right to Die Societies for a number of years.

2016

As of 2016, the paperback Final Exit was in print in English, Spanish and Italian.

2017

In 2017 he published his life story, Good Life, Good Death: The Memoir of a Right To Die Pioneer (Carrel Books, New York. ISBN 978-1631440663)

The film Nomadland, which won three Oscars in 2021, mentions Final Exit, but incorrectly attributes the book to Jack Kevorkian.

Derek Humphry's books, manuscripts, papers and documents are archived at Special Collections, Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.