- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: Delta Trade Paperback; 3rd Revised edition (5 April 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385336535
- ISBN-13: 978-0385336536
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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- #18 in Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Health Issues > Illnesses & Conditions > Suicide
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As the legal controversy continues--this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personnel.
The original publication of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people with terminal illness a choice on how--and when--to end their suffering. It helped thousands by giving clear instructions to doctors, nurses, and families on how to handle a patient’s request for euthanasia.
In the wake of court cases and legislative mandates, this revised and updated third edition goes far beyond the original to provide new information about the legality of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and a thoughtful examination of the personal issues involved. It has become the essential source to help loved ones and supportive doctors remain within existing laws and keep a person’s dying intimate, private, and dignified.
With deep compassion and sensitivity, it spells out why a living will may not be sufficient to have a person’s wishes carried out--and what document is a better alternative. It updates where to get proper drugs and exactly how to carry out the quickest, most peaceful way to make a final exit. Finally, it gently talks to a person considering self-deliverance about alternatives, planning, and the means to make every death a "good death" at our time of greatest need.
The original publication of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people with terminal illness a choice on how--and when--to end their suffering. It helped thousands by giving clear instructions to doctors, nurses, and families on how to handle a patient’s request for euthanasia.
In the wake of court cases and legislative mandates, this revised and updated third edition goes far beyond the original to provide new information about the legality of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and a thoughtful examination of the personal issues involved. It has become the essential source to help loved ones and supportive doctors remain within existing laws and keep a person’s dying intimate, private, and dignified.
With deep compassion and sensitivity, it spells out why a living will may not be sufficient to have a person’s wishes carried out--and what document is a better alternative. It updates where to get proper drugs and exactly how to carry out the quickest, most peaceful way to make a final exit. Finally, it gently talks to a person considering self-deliverance about alternatives, planning, and the means to make every death a "good death" at our time of greatest need.
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Hastened death requires careful planning
'Final Exit' contains information about which are the best drugs to use in both self-deliverance and assisted suicide to escape a terminal illness at the end. They are prescription drugs because only these are reliably lethal. Such a release from terminal suffering requires careful advance planning. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'Final Exit' contains information about which are the best drugs to use in both self-deliverance and assisted suicide to escape a terminal illness at the end. They are prescription drugs because only these are reliably lethal. Such a release from terminal suffering requires careful advance planning. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is the scenario: You are terminally ill, all medical treatments acceptable to you have been exhausted, and the suffering in its different forms is unbearable. Read the first page
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Final Exit" has strengths and weaknesses as a how-to book (this is not a review of its philosophy). The writing is clear, simple, and compassionate. However, its useful information is limited to drug overdose and plastic bag asphyxia. A much more wide rangeing, thorough, and interesting book on the same subject is Geo Stone's "Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences." I would suggest reading both of them.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This was a pioneering book when it was first published. It still has the merits of unmatched simplicity and clarity, but there is a MUCH more comprehensive (if harder to read) book on the same subject, "Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences" by Geo Stone. I recommend both---they're surprisingly different---but if I were interested in anything other than plastic bag asphyxia (and even here Stone's book is more informative), Stone's would be my first choice.
43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was given this book by someone who knew how ill I am and that I want to stop. It was compltely useless, as the only method it explains and recommends depends on being able to obtain large quantities of strong prescription drugs,which is impossible for most people, especially if one is already too ill to go out anywhere. There are also chapters about prepartion, leaving notes, considering the effects on other people, but that was all very obvious and somewhat superfluous.
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Your right to die... not authorities right to keep you alive...
This book is NOT for the faint hearted. It's extremely serious and a very controversial and difficult subject to cover, both emotionally and technically. Read more
Published 10 months ago by I. Wilson
Another Fascist Placeholder Full of Cosmic Fantasies
It's just another fascist placeholder depriving people who want to end their lives of their right to die with dignity.
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Published 12 months ago by gross
Final Exit Book Review
This was a very informative and practical book that took everything into consideration and gave clear options and advice. Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by R. Jenkinson
Comforting to Have
Suicide is a risky business, and easily bungled, potentially leaving one disabled and unable to try again - the worst possible outcome. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2009 by Howard Somerville
'Final Exit' remains the gold standard in such books
'Final Exit' has been in continuous print for 18 years, sold all over the world in l2 languages. Thousands of competent adults have used its information to achieve their wanted... Read more
Published on 8 May 2009 by Derek Humphry
the best so far
Whilst not exactly a definitive srudy of this controversdial subject it is proably the best guide available to date. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2009 by elsewhere
Useful book for the terminally ill person and their family
Persons ethically opposed to this book need not, and should not read it. For almost ten years, Final Exit has been the accepted handbook for self-deliverance and assisted suicide... Read more
Published on 9 May 1999
This book is thoughtless, cold and full of errors
Mr. Humphry failed to demonstrate much knowledge in the field of pathology. Many of the advices he gave are plainly wrong, and the rest of them are totally useless. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 1999
He botched it
The Final Exit, The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, written by Derek Humphry, initially enslaved me into reading with deliberate... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 1999
Not the best book on self-deliverance
I read this book, and found that there is little information regarding methods other than plastic bags. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 1998
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