And I Don't Want To Live This Life is a non-fiction book written by Deborah Spungen. Published by Random House in 1983, it is about her daughter, Nancy Spungen, who died from a stab wound to the abdomen at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City in 1978. Nancy's then boyfriend, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was accused of and ultimately confessed to the crime, although he died of a drug overdose before being convicted. Fans of Vicious and the Sex Pistols have frequently alleged that Nancy's death was by another's hand; Vicious himself described her death as accidental.
The book is named after a line in a poem Vicious wrote some time after Nancy's death: