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Physician Dr. Jack Kevorkian has aroused much controversy by calling for laws allowing “physician assisted suicide” and for himself assisting terminally ill or physically compromised people to commit suicide. Kevorkian has served time in prison for his actions. Author Derek Humphrey, in his best-selling book Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, treats the subject of the right to die and euthanasia (mercy killing) in controversial depth. The book, intended for terminally ill people, is partially a “how-to” on committing suicide. Humphrey's Hemlock Society lobbies nationally for the right to die.
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