The Grief I Buried and the Lengthy Exhumation Process

Can you just tell us briefly about Final Exit for people that haven't heard of it or don't know what it is?

Yeah.

So based on what I know of Final Exit, I think Derek Humphries wrote the book called Final Exit.

Might have to edit that out if that's not true.

We'll check

it.

We'll fact check it.

Fact check.

Derek Humphries wrote Final Exit.

Once the Hemlock Society and Jack Kevorkian was arrested, Hemlock Society disbanded, I'm pretty sure that Compassionate Choices and Final Exit kind of splintered off.

And Compassionate Choices really pushed for the legalization of medical aid in dying.

Final exit's approach was that this will never be legal everywhere.

There are people who have pancreatic cancer.

They're in pain.

They have a neurodegenerative condition.

They have a limited time to make this decision.

And there are many people who They're not struggling with some underlying mental health condition.

They've lived a long, happy, fulfilling life, but they know what's ahead of them and they want to end their life on their own terms.

So Final Exit will provide information for people to do that.

So my parents had driven to a party store to buy helium for party balloons.

And they ordered this special hood online that was delivered.

And the guides came to provide support, or I should say presence there.

My father's actually the one who, of course, turned on the handle to the helium.

He had to be able to do that.

No one did that for him.

Can you just tell us briefly about Final Exit for people that haven't heard of it or don't know what it is?

Yeah.

So based on what I know of Final Exit, I think Derek Humphries wrote the book called Final Exit.

Might have to edit that out if that's not true.

We'll check

it.

We'll fact check it.

Fact check.

Derek Humphries wrote Final Exit.

Once the Hemlock Society and Jack Kevorkian was arrested, Hemlock Society disbanded, I'm pretty sure that Compassionate Choices and Final Exit kind of splintered off.

And Compassionate Choices really pushed for the legalization of medical aid in dying.

Final exit's approach was that this will never be legal everywhere.

There are people who have pancreatic cancer.

They're in pain.

They have a neurodegenerative condition.

They have a limited time to make this decision.

And there are many people who They're not struggling with some underlying mental health condition.

They've lived a long, happy, fulfilling life, but they know what's ahead of them and they want to end their life on their own terms.

So Final Exit will provide information for people to do that.

So my parents had driven to a party store to buy helium for party balloons.

And they ordered this special hood online that was delivered.

And the guides came to provide support, or I should say presence there.

My father's actually the one who, of course, turned on the handle to the helium.

He had to be able to do that.

No one did that for him.