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The fear of death and dying, write Dr. Manu Kothari and Dr. Lopa Mehta, constitutes today the gravest disease of our time. The dread of dying, particularly from illness, is an attitude promoted over the centuries by medical men, pill companies and medical equipment suppliers. Every time a group of medical experts has a discussion on stroke, heart attack or cancer on the TV, thousands of listeners are overnight converted from normal human beings into anxious patients. In their stunning new book, Living, Dying the celebrated authors of The Nature of Cancer and The Other Face of Cancer delve into the biological and medical data on death – and come up with a readable, amply reassuring, personally satisfying account of disease, dying and death that is bound to change the life of anyone who reads it. Their primary intention is to free disease-dying-n-death of their assumed obscenity, as also, to restore to living-n-life their pristine dignity. Their logical elaboration of euvivasia, euthanasia, tachythanasia, dysthanasia, and, immortality will have universal appeal.