To Die Like a Gentleman follows the relationship between a boy and his grandfather during the most trying times of the grandfather's life, as he finds out that he has what's believed to be terminal cancer. Rather than compromise the remaining days of his life, the relationships that he's made throughout the years, as well as the possibility of never being able to teach his grandson all of life's lessons that he-himself learned over the years, the old man chooses to avoid chemotherapy so that he can spend his final days living on his feet, rather than dying on his knees.