"My Last Wonderful Days" is a July 1956 article written by Hazel Beck Andre about her accepting her dying from cancer.
[2] Hazel Beck Andre died in 1956 from cancer when she was 42 years old, a few weeks after writing "My Last Wonderful Days".
[1][3] In the article, Andre wrote that the "hardest part" of dying was leaving her family and that she later had "no regret" due to her life being "rich and full".
Andre wrote of things that she would do if she lived her life over again including "savoring" the beauty of "sunrises, the patina of an old brass coffee pot, and the delighted look on a tiny girl's face when she pets a kitty for the first time".
She prepared for her death with her husband, the Iowa State University Dean of Agriculture Floyd Andre, and their three children.