In the s he turned to more contemporary subjects, including sexual harassment and abuse , motorcycle gangs and drug dealing , entertainment personalities, the American circus industry, religious cults , and deprogrammers. He also authored or co-authored novels based on family relationships, human cloning , politics , and addiction to psychics.
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His three biographies, Mary's World: Portrait of a Prodigy and Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison brought him national recognition. In , "Strength and Honor" was chosen to be translated into the Braille language for the blind by the Library of Congress. In , after being commissioned to write a documentary history of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, that agency insisted that all references to the port's early use for the slave trade be censored, and that local opposition to its expansion be deleted.
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Interviewed by Cammie Amacher, March 17, The Post and Courier. Undercover with FBI Counterintelligence. Retrieved from " https: According to former president Faye Girsh, the Hemlock Society was founded in and named in reference to Socrates ' decision to end his life by drinking Hemlock rather than succumb to an existence he found intolerable. Though he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have chosen exile, but chose death, an act seen as dignified and noble by many supporters of assisted suicide.
This noble gesture is compounded when one considers that ingesting tincture of Hemlock is not only lethal, but a painful way to die.
Earlier right-to-die advocacy organizations, such as the Euthanasia Educational Council which formed in and changed its name to Concern For Dying in , pre-dated The Hemlock Society and its mission. Hemlock was a founding charter member of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies when the international organization initiated in in Oxford , England , by Sidney D. Rosoff and Derek Humphry. Hemlock's national membership grew to 40, with eighty chapters.
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Hemlock backed legislative efforts in California, Washington, Michigan, and Maine without success until the Oregon Death with Dignity Act was passed on October 27, Larue , Derek Humphry, Sidney D. Past executive directors included Derek Humphry acting — , Cheryl K. Smith — , John A. Pridonoff — , Helen Voorhis acting — , Faye J. Good later offers to let Kevorkian use her home as the location of the assisted suicide of his first patient, Janet Adkins, but later withdraws the offer because her husband Ray, a former member of the Detroit Police Department , questions the legality of assisted suicide in the state.
It forces Kevorkian to use his Volkswagen camper van instead. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the Indian Bengali film of same name, see Hemlock Society film.
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