1. Derek Humphry was a British and American journalist and author.
10 Facts About Derek Humphry
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Derek Humphry was a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die.
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Derek Humphry's 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.
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In early 1990, Derek Humphry married Gretchen Crocker, youngest daughter of an Oregon farming family.
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Derek Humphry died of congestive heart failure, in Eugene, Oregon, on 2 January 2025, aged 94.
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Derek Humphry was 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.
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From when it was founded in 2004, Derek Humphry was an adviser to the Final Exit Network.
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Derek Humphry was newsletter editor for the World Federation of Right to Die Societies for a number of years.
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Derek Humphry told the story from his perspective in the best-selling Jean's Way.
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Derek and Jean Humphry had three sons, the youngest one an adoptee.