Author Robert Munsch is approved for MAID, but his daughter clarifies he's 'not dying'

He first said it years ago: the stories will be the last to go .

And now, prolific and iconic children's author Robert Munsch — beloved for his stories about a plucky princess named Elizabeth, about Mortimer's bedtime protest song, about a little boy whose mother will love him forever — is saying that even though the stories still remain with him, he's slipping away.

In an interview with the New York Times , Munsch says he has decided on a medically assisted death, also known as MAID, after previously being diagnosed with dementia and Parkinson's disease. He applied and was approved shortly after his diagnosis, he told the publication.

But as tributes to the author started pouring in, his daughter, Julie Munsch, hopped on social media Tuesday to clarify that her father isn't dyi