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In Search of Gentle Death: A Brief History of the NuTech Group
In Search of Gentle Death A Brief History of the NuTech Group Author:Richard N. Cote' IN A PERFECT WORLD, when life is coming to its natural end, most people would like to die peacefully, at home, surrounded by loving friends and family members. Sadly, this rarely happens anymore. Instead, countless numbers of people are forced to live out their last months and years in unbearable, untreatable pain against their will, kept alive ... more »solely by machines they don't want and laws they can't escape. Polls show that a large majority of all people in the Western world believe that physicians should be allowed to hasten the deaths of rational, terminally ill people experiencing unendurable pain if requested. But most local laws forbid what many believe to be the ultimate civil liberty: the right to die. This booklet examines the lives and achievements of a tiny group of people who banded together in 1999. Their goal: to develop simple, painless, legal end-of-life liberation technologies which enable those facing unendurable pain and suffering to die with dignity at the time and place of their own choosing. These pioneers formed an almost unknown group called NuTech. This is the only time they have ever told their story, and they told it to only one writer, a social historian who lives in the American South.« less