A review by bookbitch
Too Soon to Say Goodbye by Art Buchwald

Art Buchwald's kidneys were failing. He needed dialysis to get his leg amputated, but then decided no more dialysis. He was in complete renal failure, checked himself into hospice and began the process of spending his last few weeks dying. Except he didn't. At least not for several months. He became the "Man Who Would Not Die" and got to say goodbye to everybody who meant anything to him - some of them more than once. He plans his funeral, his eulogy, the food being served; discusses heaven, living wills, and all the other things no one discusses about death. This is pure Buchwald, dying on his own terms and determined to make us laugh as he does it - a truly fitting goodbye from an American icon.