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In 2014, Derek
Humphry was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Federation of Right To Die Societies for "contributing so much, so long and so courageously to our right to a peaceful death." The award was presented by the organization's president, Faye Girsh, at its 20th international
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with her husband at her side, with an intentional overdose of medication; she was suffering from terminal bone cancer. Humphry told the story from his perspective in the best-selling
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by virtue of his past presidency and in appreciation of his 26 years of involvement with that organization. Since it was founded in 2004, Humphry has been an adviser to the
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conference in Chicago in 2014. It was the first time this award had been made.
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to a British father and an Irish mother, Humphry was raised in the
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Freedom to Die: People, Politics & The Right-To-Die Movement
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