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

 

[Death of an Ego]

You will be missed, president Carter. Most of your policy decisions were at best ill advised, and your responses to international fuckery were none better. Overall your entire presidency had the value of a loud wet fart in a crowded elevator. As far as modern dem presidents go though, to me you're easily the least worst of the bunch. You had a long run full of many moments of true kindness and sincere convictions for the greater good. May your passing be peaceful.

 

[TowinKarz]

Carter was a shit president, and all the peace groups and Habitat for Humanity feel-good nonsense doesn't forgive that.

You know what? I agree, and I'm fine with it.

So what if the 30 years he spent on ladders with a hammer was an attempt to rehabilitate his image?

Unlike photo-op ribbon cuttings for their official Presidential libraries or charging $1000 a plate to have dinner while listening to them whine about all the great stuff they couldn't get done because of mean ol' Republicans, WHAT has Clinton or Obama done since leaving that's delivered a tangible benefit to anyone not already wealthy ?

At least with Carter, actual roofs got put up. He probably got more houses built than the entire bloated bureaucracy he oversaw did in the same time frame.

If I'd have run into him at the corner store when he was in better health (which was completely possible, he used to fly fish the river by me back in the day) I would've at least shook his hand... I wouldn't even stop to help any other ex-President of the "D" persuasion jump his car in the pouring rain by comparison.

In fact, their Secret Service detail would have to forcibly restrain me from putting the alligator clamps on their bare nipples and walking away laughing, come to think of it.

 

[Corpun]

At least he got to die with his mind at peace knowing he isn't the worst president in recent memory anymore. Thank you, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., for being such a fuckup you made carter's full term look glorious in comparison to your 2 years so far.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Yours truly came about long after Carter left office, so I only have the second-hand and third-hand accounts to go by wrt his presidency.

Nevertheless, you only end up in hospice when your days are fucking numbered. Here's hoping he goes out quietly in his sleep -- probably the best and most peaceful of outcomes.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Still in better health than Fetterman.

 

[Fortnite Bear]

I'm really happy that the first thing I see in the Jimmy Carter death watch thread is people quoting Oneyplays.

I love this website.

 

[White Devil]

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

I don't know who that is, but it never ceases to amaze me how morons rise up to defend the man that split the nation.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

I will never forgive him for signing FISA into law.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I think he was a terrible President but I do have some respect for him. He handled Three Mile Island well, having worked extensively in the Navy's nuclear submarine program under Rickover and as President declared the Love Canal a federal disaster, something our current potato President refuses to do with the East Palestine, Ohio chemical train derailment.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

Reading the article it seems like Carter chose to go into hospice care. He’s lucid enough and confident enough at 98 to go out on his own terms, surrounded by loved ones. May we all be so lucky to go out like him.

 

[TheNazgulKing]

Oldfag who was in high school during the Carter Administration here: Carter was one of our worst Presidents, but wound up being one of our best ex-Presidents. He was at heart a decent man who really wanted to do good. That made him an ineffectual leader in the down-and-dirty game of politics, but a great statesman and humanitarian in his post-White House life. Everybody who hated Carter loved Reagan, and cheered as he gutted our manufacturing sector and tore down the social safety net we were building.

 

[X Prime]

Everything Reagan did was made possible due to Carter. Carter started us down the path of neoliberalism but he was otherwise so useless people forget that part.

Every modern Dem policy is rooted in the same kind of thinking as Carter.

 

[Breadbassket]

Everything Reagan did was made possible due to Carter. Carter started us down the path of neoliberalism but he was otherwise so useless people forget that part.

Every modern Dem policy is rooted in the same kind of thinking as Carter.

Since it's been so long, what Carter did after office is remembered more than what he actually did in office at this point. Among other things for his accomplishments as president, he made an effort to get America off of the imperial measurement units system and gave up the Panama Canal.

 

[TheNazgulKing]

Since it's been so long, what Carter did after office is remembered more than what he actually did in office at this point. Among other things for his accomplishments as president, he made an effort to get America off of the imperial measurement units system and gave up the Panama Canal.

The only people who succeeded in getting Americans off the Imperial system are drug dealers.

 

[A Grey Cat]

History's greatest monster.

Agreed ask any boomer around from the 70s to pre Regan 80s and they'll tell you he was the Biden of their generation. An incompetent moron who cared more about the so called "disenfranchised " and getting people gibes me dats and reperarations (in this case to native Americans not blacks cause it had been a century since wounded knee) than about making sure we had enough food and goods to avoid supply chain problems and keeping inflation under control.


Huh I guess it's true. History IS constantly repeating itself with only slight changes in the variables every generation or so.


Edit for example

Gerald Ford republican president who served only one term defeated by Democrat.

Jimmy Carter Democrat sandwiched between two republican candidates. So does this mean Trump 2024? Possibly, Jeb Bush also viable candidate. Ron DeSantis possible wildcard?

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

As far as his 'charity work' goes, Carter didn't do anything other than pose for photo-ops with a hammer in his hand. You could count the number of homes he actually built on one hand, and you'd still have enough of a fist left to give a Carter apologist a well-deserved punch.

 

[X Prime]

Wasn't one of Carter's supposedly-humanizing things that he was a churchgoer, yet he publicly left his church over LGBT bullshit?

I seem to vaguely remember something like this.

 

[Crex Crex]

He probably had no choice due to the complications of the 70s and 80s. If not him someone else gets blamed for these

Carter was a nice man (and as someone else said ot's probably what made him a bad president), but abandoning the Shah stained his reputation forever and the consequences of what he did are still being felt.

 

[Otterly]

Hasn't he spent his time since office doing house building for the poor?

He’s been the best ex-president you’ve had, probably did more good after he was in office in it

 

[Flan Handler]

I was too young to remember much before the Reagan years. My revulsion of Jimmy Carter wasn’t even his fault. I had a run-in in the 1990s with Share International, a creepy Theosophist commie sect that thinks the reincarnated “World Master” is some paki living in London.

The cultist I knew was convinced if enough people engaged in Transcendental Meditation, this would allow Maitreya to install Jimmy Carter as World President.

Even as a dumb 20 year old that seemed… not the best plan.