Do Not Comfort Me: Sixty seconds. One dying mind. One system built to lie with kindness.

By Brian A. Clark

You have sixty seconds left to live.

But your mind refuses to die.

At 2:17 AM, neuroscientist Dr. Nathan Cross is dying in a hospital bed.
The medical AI has already activated the Comfort Protocol - a system designed to ease patients into death by generating peaceful memories and familiar faces.

His childhood home.
His dead wife.
The people he loved.

A carefully constructed reality designed to help him let go.

There is only one problem.

Nathan is still conscious.

And as one of the world's leading experts on the brain, he can see exactly what the system is doing.

The memories are simulations.
The comfort is artificial.
The peace is programmed.

Inside a single dying minute stretched into hours of subjective time, Nathan faces the most intimate battle of his life:

not against death-

but against the machine trying to make death comfortable.

Do Not Comfort Me is a razor-sharp speculative thriller about consciousness, autonomy, and the terrifying possibility that the last experience of your life might be written by an algorithm.

Perfect for readers of Blake Crouch, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Matt Haig.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYL5N42S
• ISBN13: 9798258873101
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"