Gerald Larue, 98; Early Advocate of Right to Die

September 29, 2014

(Boston Globe) – 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 Sept. 17 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 98. His son, David, said the cause was a stroke.