Former US President Jimmy Carter to receive hospice care

Former US President Jimmy Carter will receive hospice care and "spend his remaining time at home with his family" instead of additional medical intervention, the Carter Center said.

Mr Carter, 98, is the country's oldest living former leader.

The Democrat served one term from 1977 to 1981. He was defeated in his re-election bid by Ronald Reagan.

He has suffered from recent health issues including a melanoma that spread to his liver and brain.

"He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers," the Carter Center said in a statement.

Mr Carter has the distinction of being a former US president longer than anyone else.

Since leaving the White House, Mr Carter has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center.

He went on to gain an international reputation for his work in promoting human rights, winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Born in Georgia in 1924, Mr Carter entered politics in the 1960s when he was elected as state senator, before becoming the state's governor in 1971.

Five years later he defeated the sitting Republican President Gerald Ford to become the 39th president.

In August 2015, Mr Carter had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver. The following year, he announced that he needed no further treatment, as an experimental drug had eliminated any sign of cancer.

In 2021 he celebrated his 75th wedding anniversary with his wife Rosalynn.

BBC News

 

[JosephStalin]

What about Bush Jr?

I liked him, overall. Your mileage may vary.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

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It's probably for the best. Him and Roslyn are shrinking down to peanut size.

reject humanity, embrace pea-ness
wait that's terrible, I quit

 

[Burd Turglar]

Carter get's a bad rap but he's a genuinely good person which is why he was so easy to fuck over politically. I hope is passing is peaceful.

 

[White Devil]

Carter is a nice man, but was for a very long time the worst President ever. This is from personal experience. Was very happy and grateful when President Reagan came into office. Now, of course, we have Obama and now Biden as the worst Presidents ever.

Lincoln is still the high bar of worst President, but those two are closing in.

 

[Troutsmacked]

I mean I'm sure it's sad for his loved ones, but 98 isn't a bad run. I wish him and his family well.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

Carter get's a bad rap but he's a genuinely good person which is why he was so easy to fuck over politically. I hope is passing is peaceful.

This 1000%.
I never hated him as a person, but as a president...well hes not as bad as Joe.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

That was in 2015 and he recovered. It says so in the article.

Sure, and no-one in the media ever lies.

 

[Johnny Salami]

Jimmy Carter might not have been the best President, but he has acquitted himself well since leaving office. His work with eliminating guinea worm has made the world an immeasurably better place. For those who weren't aware, guinea worm is an incredibly painful parasite, and cases in the 1980s when the Carter Center started its eradication program, cases used to number in the millions. Last year there were thirteen.

Plus there have been a ton of great Simpsons jokes about Jimmy, back when the show was still funny. Here's one for reference:

Not posting the funniest one

 

[thx1138]

TFW the best one of the better Democratic presidents of the 20th century was only because he was too feckless, weak willed, and useless to actually do anything actively malevolent

The Carter admin backed the Khmer Rouge so...

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

the only living president who i have even the tiniest respect for. hope he get good care in hospice.

 

[TowinKarz]

The Carter admin backed the Khmer Rouge so...

The entire western world is guilty of that crime, when the Vietnamese invaded and deposed Pol Pot, only the USSR having veto power prevented the UN from sanctioning Vietnam while they were trying to feed 5 million starving people they had no idea they were going to literally march into the thick of.

The US-led coalition of everyone else at the table was more concerned that commies be denied a "W" than the fact Cambodia needed urgent humanitarian aid.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Lincoln is still the high bar of worst President, but those two are closing in.

Didn't know Razorfist had an account on the Farms.

 

[Quijibo69]

Thought he already was dead because of old. Now he'll die because I said that.

 

[Mothra1988]

How great this guy was supposed to be after leaving office was flushed down the toilet when they trotted him out to bash Trump and call him "illegitimate." The only reason people care is because he's an old man so they can pretend he was just some Sunday School teaching peanut farmer, but when he was president he was a libtard space alien who put solar panels on the White House and destroyed the economy and US foreign policy through his horrible administration. Kind of reminds me of some other guy that may be president.

 

[W00K #17]

Pouring out a can of Billy Beer.

 

[Legato]

I liked him, overall. Your mileage may vary.

He was a CIA stooge just like his dad. You dumb.

 

[Mothra1988]

He was a CIA stooge just like his dad. You dumb.

But the media said he was a nice guy! You know just like Bill and Hillary being a great couple still together. lol

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Carter was a shit president, and all the peace groups and Habitat for Humanity feel-good nonsense doesn't forgive that. In fact, i've always argued the biggest reason he does all that charity work is to make people forget how awful of a leader of the free world he really was.

Edit: Now that I think about it, people say how good of a man he was, he certainly didn't show any of it as president when it actually mattered.

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

Great defense of the man going on in this thread.

"Sure he was incompetent, but he was also spineless."

 

[Slap47]

Carter was interesting as a president. He took down the overt American Imperialism like the Monroe Doctrine and Panama canal control, but it all served a larger goal of creating a neoliberal world order.
He has a very progressive reputation due to his charity, but he was pretty bullish on austerity and laying the ground for full-on Reaganism. He was even the guy that got the evangelicals into politics when they had previously been an apolitical bunch like in Mexico.