''A Life Without Pain'' is a 2005 documentary film by

Melody Gilbert Melody Gilbert is an independent documentary filmmaker, and educator from Washington, D.C. now living in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She has directed, filmed, produced, and sometimes edited, seven independent feature-length documentaries since 2 ...

about children who can't feel pain.

Plot synopsis

The film explores the daily lives of three children with

Congenital insensitivity to pain Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN g ...

, a rare genetic disorder shared by just a hundred people in the world. Three-year-old Gabby from Minnesota, 7-year-old Miriam from Norway and 10-year-old Jamilah from

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have to be carefully guarded by their parents so they don't suffer serious, life-altering injuries.

Reception

The release of the film garnered widespread interest in the topic, and the character Gabby was featured on

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in 2006.

References

External links

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Official Website
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