[Right_to_die] New publication reveals history of NuTech's research work

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New Book Profiles Developers of
  Gentle Ways to End Unendurable Lives

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, and many die in 
extreme agony. Polls show that between 60% and 80% 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 achievements of a tiny, international group of 
physicians and technicians who banded together in 1999. Their goal: to 
develop simple, painless, legal end-of-life self-liberation technologies 
which enable those facing unendurable pain and suffering to die with 
dignity at the time and place of their own choosing.

The team included America’s Derek Humphry, founder of The Hemlock 
Society and author the international best-seller, Final Exit; the 
Reverend George Exoo, a Unitarian minister and AIDS activist; Canada’s 
John L. Hofsess, founder of The Right to Die Society of Canada; and 
Australia’s Dr. Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International. These 
right-to-die pioneers formed an almost unknown group called NuTech. This 
is the only time they have ever told their story, and they trusted it to 
only one writer.

RICHARD N. CÔTÉ is the author of three acclaimed biographies, a social 
history, many professional journal articles, a contemporary novel, and 
co-wrote or edited over thirty other books. In 2004, he was awarded the 
Bobby Gilmer Moss Award in History by the Daughters of the American 
Revolution for his outstanding historical writing. He lives near 
historic Charleston, South Carolina.

In Search of Gentle Death (ISBN 978-1-929175-36-9), 42 pp., 6” x 9”, is 
available now from www.Amazon.com, from the publisher, 
www.CorinthianBooks.com, and through bookstores nationwide. 

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