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This past year hasn't been kind to Art Buchwald, the 80-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning political satirist whose Washington Post column has poked fun at politicians for 50 years.
Buchwald lost a leg in February due to blood clots. When his kidneys failed due to diabetes, doctors told him that his age made him a poor candidate for a transplant. And dialysis, a five-hour "washing-machine process," did not cheer him up.See the full content of this document
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'Poster Boy' for Death
So he told his family at the end of February that he would pass on daily dialysis and accept the fact that it was his time to go. Buchwald was admitted to the Washington Home and Hospice, where he was expected to live a wee...
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