For the Indian Bengali film of same name, see Hemlock Society (film).
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Hemlock Society
Founded
1980
Dissolved
2003
Type
Right-to-die, assisted suicide
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California; Los Angeles, California; Eugene, Oregon; combined Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado
Location
United States
Membership
46,000[1]
Key people
Derek Humphry, Ann Wickett Humphry, Gerald A. Larue, Faye Girsh
Website
www.compassionandchoices.org
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, who took its name from Conium maculatum, a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant 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 Phaedo.[2][unreliable source?]
It was co-founded in Santa Monica, California by British author and activist Derek Humphry, his wife Ann Wickett Humphry and Gerald A. Larue.[citation needed] It relocated to Oregon in 1988 and, according to Humphry, had several homes over the course of its life.[2][unreliable source?]
The Hemlock Society's primary mission included providing information to the dying and supporting legislation permitting physician-assisted suicide. Its motto was "Good Life, Good Death".[3]
In 2003, the national organization renamed itself End of Life Choices. In 2004, some former members of the Hemlock Society, notably Derek Humphry and Faye Girsh, founded the Final Exit Network.[4][self-published source] It took its name from Humphry's 1991 book of the same name.[5] In 2004, End-of-Life Choices merged with Compassion in Dying, which is now known as Compassion & Choices.[6][unreliable source?] Several local and state organizations, including the Hemlock Society of Florida[7] and the Hemlock Society of San Diego,[8] have retained the Hemlock Society name. Others, such as the Hemlock Society of Illinois (now Final Options Illinois[9]), have changed their names.[better source needed]
^Gabriel, Trip (8 December 1991). "A Fight to the Death". The New York Times.
^ abHumphry, Derek (21 February 2005). "Farewell to Hemlock – Killed by its Name". Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO). Retrieved 10 November 2019.
^Duckett, Jodi (23 September 1991). "Final Choices Hemlock Society Backerts Believe in the Right to a Good Death". themorningcall.com.
^"The Hemlock Society I Compassion & Choices I Final Exit Network". www.finalexitnetwork.org.
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at her home by taking her own life, following the guidelines of the HemlockSociety that she was a member of. — (1933). Foretaste, Poems. Writer's Editions...
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