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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 79
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  5.     DIED. Ann Wickett Humphry, 49, ex-wife of Derek Humphry,
  6. author of the best-selling guide to committing suicide, Final
  7. Exit; an apparent suicide by drug overdose; near Bend, Ore. In
  8. 1978 Ann and Derek Humphry wrote Jean's Way, a book recounting
  9. how Humphry helped his first wife, who had breast cancer, kill
  10. herself in 1975. Ann and Derek Humphry were co-founders of the
  11. Hemlock Society, which advocates voluntary euthanasia for the
  12. terminally ill. Ann Humphry charged that Derek Humphry abandoned
  13. her in 1989 after she too was found to have breast cancer and
  14. underwent surgery.
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