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- <text id=91TT2357>
- <title>
- Oct. 21, 1991: Died:Ann Wickett Humphry
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 21, 1991 Sex, Lies & Politics
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 79
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- <p> DIED. Ann Wickett Humphry, 49, ex-wife of Derek Humphry,
- author of the best-selling guide to committing suicide, Final
- Exit; an apparent suicide by drug overdose; near Bend, Ore. In
- 1978 Ann and Derek Humphry wrote Jean's Way, a book recounting
- how Humphry helped his first wife, who had breast cancer, kill
- herself in 1975. Ann and Derek Humphry were co-founders of the
- Hemlock Society, which advocates voluntary euthanasia for the
- terminally ill. Ann Humphry charged that Derek Humphry abandoned
- her in 1989 after she too was found to have breast cancer and
- underwent surgery.
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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