Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alan: He was 29. He had been suffering from major depression for seven months. As far as we know, he became a member of the Hemlock Society ((a group co- founded by Derek Humphry that advocates the right of the terminally ill to take their own life)) in July by sending them a check for $25. They don't screen members...
Alan: Under certain circumstances. If people are terminally ill, yes, they have a right to do it. But I think if they're determined to make that decision, they can go out and do the research on their own. They don't need the Hemlock Society...
...people want to go to the Hemlock Society and sit down with a representative face to face, and tell him that they're dying, he could give them information right there on the spot. There's a difference between someone going to the Hemlock Society and just putting the book on the shelves in a bookstore...
...Humphry says that "suicide for reasons of depression has never been part of the credo of the Hemlock Society...
PROPONENTS of Initiative 119 have dismissed these and other arguments against legalizing euthanasia as unrealistic "slippery slope" arguments. Hemlock Society spokespeople have said over and over again that their law attempts to increase the options for the individual, not to make it possible for doctors to murder their patients with impunity...