Gerald A. Larue, Obit

Gerald A. Larue, an ordained minister, scholar and eventual agnostic who, as the first president of the Hemlock Society, was an early and leading advocate of giving the terminally ill the option to end their own lives, died on Sept. 17 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 98.

His son, David, said the cause was a stroke.

“We had the chance to put him on a ventilator,” David Larue said, “but given that he’s the founding president of the Hemlock Society, I’d discussed that with him and knew that was not what he wanted to do.”

Full Obit, NY Times, September 27, 2014.