Final Exit Digital Edition (2011 KE): The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying

✍ Scribed by Humphry, Derek

• Book ID: 110513594
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B004TGU1VY

✦ Synopsis

'Final Exit' is the most famous D.I.Y. textbook on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. Authored by the founder of the Hemlock Society and former president of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies. Final Exit, includes unique step-by-step language for the competent adult who is terminally or hopelessly ill to bring their life to a peaceful, non-violent end, if they wish. Drug dosages and helium gas techniques are described and illustrated. Such can be achieved without Dr. Kevorkian or any doctor. Much the same methods are used by Dignitas in Switzerland, and the right to die groups in countries where doctor-assisted dying is legal. 'Final Exit' outlines the legal complications connected with dying, death, hastened death, euthanasia laws, suicide, Living Wills and Advance Directives. The family aspect is discussed and the advisability of a 'suicide note' (with sample) is addressed. The problems with life insurance and suicide are discussed, as are the ethics of double suicide. The Oregon Death With Dignity Act, is referenced. ‘Final Exit’ has been translated into 12 languages. Some right-to-die groups use the book as a required primer for people considering hastening their end.

The revised third edition of 'Final Exit' (2010 revision) has been updated from earlier editions, when in 1991 the book was the 'Number One' bestseller on the New York Times nonfiction list.
The updated third edition (3.1) includes updated guidance to the helium gas (helium hood) and exit bag (plastic bag) methods, which have been used by hundreds of people for their own euthanasia, and other techniques and new drug dosages.