Non si deve morire per vivere is the testimony of Benito Franza and Albino Stella's courageous and tena- cious struggle to let the public know about the illness they contracted while working at the Ipca, which is a factory that produces colouring substances in Ciriè, near Turin. The words of the children of those who died give life to a sad chapter of the social and economic history of our country that many want to forget. It is interwoven with the stories of many people's lives destroyed by the illness.