George Exoo

Who is George Exoo?

George Exoo is an Ohio-born former Unitarian Universalist minister and assisted suicide activist. He was originally a Methodist and has a doctorate in music history from University of California, Berkeley. He became a Unitarian Universalist minister in 1973, but is apparently no longer in ministry.

He began his involvement with assisted suicide after a member of his congregation made remarks about a man he'd counselled had committed suicide. In 1982 he joined the Hemlock Society and later he joined Final Exit Network. The first suicide he assisted occurred in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995. He claims to have assisted in 102 more suicides since that one.