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Felo-de-Se Odyssey: The New York Times reports that Mrs. Ann Wickett Humphry, 47, has been abandoned by husband Derek, 59, apparently because she has breast cancer. Now before you conclude that Mr. H. is a heel, please consider that when this happened to his first wife in 1975, he poisoned her. So, poor man, he has some “extremely painful” memories.

Ah, you say, that Derek Humphry, the Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society. He didn’t murder wife number one, he respected her “right to die,” facilitated her “self-deliverance”; it was “an assisted suicide.”

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Felo-de-Se Odyssey: The New York Times reports that Mrs. Ann Wickett Humphry, 47, has been abandoned by husband Derek, 59, apparently because she has breast cancer. Now before you conclude that Mr. H. is a heel, please consider that when this happened to his first wife in 1975, he poisoned her. So, poor man, he has some “extremely painful” memories.

Ah, you say, that Derek Humphry, the Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society. He didn’t murder wife number one, he respected her “right to die,” facilitated her “self-deliverance”; it was “an assisted suicide.”