Derek Humphry

Derek Humphry is an advocacy journalist who has written books on race relations, police corruption, and a biography of Michael X. He won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for Because They're Black. After nursing his wife with inoperable cancer who chose to end her life with lethal drugs to avoid future suffering, he published Jean’s Way describing her final years and his part in helping her to die peacefully. It became a bestseller and was translated into major languages. Proud to be a paperback writer, Derek has published thirteen books in forty years. He is president of the nonprofit Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO), which he founded in 1993. He is also a cofounder and chairman of the advisory board of the Final Exit Network and an adviser to the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.