While globally cherished children’s author Robert Munsch still suffers from a degenerative disease from which he’s chosen to escape through Medical Assistance in Dying, his daughter made it emphatically clear Tuesday that her father “IS NOT DYING.”

In a Facebook post through the Guelph author’s page, Julie Munsch thanked everyone for the outpouring of well-wishes that followed The New York Times reporting that the 80-year-old had been previously approved for Canada’s MAID program.

“My dad is doing well but of course with a degenerative disease it can begin to progress quickly at any point,” Julie Munsch wrote of her father, who has both dementia and Parkinson’s.

But nowhere in the Times story, she highlighted, does it suggest her father “isn’t doing well, nor that he’s going to die a

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