BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Aug 23 - 01:36 PM

According to NBC News, Rosalynn Carter planned to observe her birthday
by eating cupcakes and peanut butter ice cream
and by releasing butterflies in the home garden.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Aug 23 - 01:41 PM

Also, Jason Carter, the chair of the Carter Center Board,
has expressed sadness on the recent death of
Hugh "Sonny" Carter who was part of the Carter Administration.

(son of Jimmy Carter's first cousin)

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 03:00 PM

I can't link to it, but the New York Times has
an update on Jimmy Carter,
all I can pull up is the excerpted quote of a grandson saying
"he's still very much himself."

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 03:42 PM

Jimmy Carter, 6 Months Into Hospice, Is Still ‘Very Much’ Himself, Grandson Says
He still holds hands with his wife, Rosalynn, their grandson Josh Carter said. The family is making plans for the former president’s 99th birthday in October.

After surviving a series of health crises in recent years, including repeated falls and a bout with the skin cancer melanoma, which spread to his liver and brain, Mr. Carter opted to enter hospice care in February. According to the American Medical Association, hospice care is generally intended to relieve pain and suffering in patients who most likely have six months or less to live.

But Mr. Carter, the longest living president in American history, crossed that threshold on Friday. His family is making plans for his 99th birthday on Oct. 1, and are “surprised and thankful” that it appears they will have the chance to celebrate it, Josh Carter said.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 03:46 PM

Keb noted the passing of Jimmy's nephew. A respected and engaging Carter administration person, Hodding Carter III (no relation to Jimmy) died earlier this year. He was a remarkable journalist and commentator.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 12:52 PM

Another month has passed, Jimmy has defied expectations. "Maybe it’s the peanut butter ice cream he still enjoys. Or the fact that his first-place Atlanta Braves are cruising toward the playoffs and he wants to see another World Series. Or as many of his loved ones and former advisers suggest, maybe he is just too stubborn to follow anyone else’s timetable."

Jimmy Carter’s Final Chapter: Peanut Butter Ice Cream and His 99th Birthday
Mr. Carter was already the longest-living president in American history, but his staying power even in hospice has captured the imagination of admirers around the world.

“We thought at the beginning of this process that it was going to be in five or so days,” Jason Carter, his grandson, said in an interview, recalling the former president’s decision to check out of the hospital and go into hospice care at his home in Plains, Ga., last February. “I was down there with him in the hospital and then said goodbye. And then we thought it was going to be in that week that it was coming to the end. And it’s just now been seven months.”

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 11:08 AM

He made it!
Yesterday (Sunday) was Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 07:09 AM

Recently Carter was asked if there was something he still would want to finish in the time he has remaining. He quickly answered
'peace in the Middle East and the end of the Guinea Wirm plague'.
When he began his campaign there were 2 and a half million victims of the worm. Today there are only 6. Only smallpox was the only other plague eradicated.
source: Rachael Maddow

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 09:16 AM

Polio is extremely rare these days and has been eradicated in north and South America and Europe. It's somewhat tenacious in a few countries but even there we're on our way. Some good news yesterday about a second cheap and effective malaria vaccine.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 03:55 PM

I was the plus one guest at the celebration party for the malaria vaccine. There are some other means of eradication that would doom the Anopheles mosquito,

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 03:35 PM

Rosalynn died today at age 96. She recently entered hospice (like, last week). Jimmy has been in hospice most of the year.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 06:31 PM

I am reminded of Stilly's post in August of this year:
when one dies, if the couple is close, the other is soon to follow.
Maybe this is how Rosalynn wished it --
that she would be the first so that
she would not have to grieve her husband's passing.

I hope Mr. Carter's passing is painless and peaceful, when it comes.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Nov 23 - 09:03 PM

A Polish friend told me that they have a saying to the effect that when your loved one dies, be extra careful- the departed one wants you to come.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 07:09 AM

Recently Carter was asked if there was something he still would want to finish in the time he has remaining. He quickly answered
'peace in the Middle East and the end of the Guinea Wirm plague'.
When he began his campaign there were 2 and a half million victims of the worm. Today there are only 6. Only smallpox was the only other plague eradicated.
source: Rachael Maddow

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 03:55 PM

I was the plus one guest at the celebration party for the malaria vaccine. There are some other means of eradication that would doom the Anopheles mosquito,

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 12:52 PM

Another month has passed, Jimmy has defied expectations. "Maybe it’s the peanut butter ice cream he still enjoys. Or the fact that his first-place Atlanta Braves are cruising toward the playoffs and he wants to see another World Series. Or as many of his loved ones and former advisers suggest, maybe he is just too stubborn to follow anyone else’s timetable."

Jimmy Carter’s Final Chapter: Peanut Butter Ice Cream and His 99th Birthday
Mr. Carter was already the longest-living president in American history, but his staying power even in hospice has captured the imagination of admirers around the world.

“We thought at the beginning of this process that it was going to be in five or so days,” Jason Carter, his grandson, said in an interview, recalling the former president’s decision to check out of the hospital and go into hospice care at his home in Plains, Ga., last February. “I was down there with him in the hospital and then said goodbye. And then we thought it was going to be in that week that it was coming to the end. And it’s just now been seven months.”

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 09:16 AM

Polio is extremely rare these days and has been eradicated in north and South America and Europe. It's somewhat tenacious in a few countries but even there we're on our way. Some good news yesterday about a second cheap and effective malaria vaccine.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 11:08 AM

He made it!
Yesterday (Sunday) was Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Nov 23 - 09:03 PM

A Polish friend told me that they have a saying to the effect that when your loved one dies, be extra careful- the departed one wants you to come.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 03:35 PM

Rosalynn died today at age 96. She recently entered hospice (like, last week). Jimmy has been in hospice most of the year.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 06:31 PM

I am reminded of Stilly's post in August of this year:
when one dies, if the couple is close, the other is soon to follow.
Maybe this is how Rosalynn wished it --
that she would be the first so that
she would not have to grieve her husband's passing.

I hope Mr. Carter's passing is painless and peaceful, when it comes.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Nov 23 - 11:31 AM

And long may it not arrive.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Nov 23 - 03:03 PM

Rosalynn's memorial service in Atlanta just ended. It was a beautiful service, respectful, funny, the Bible readings were really short and the stories from friends and loved ones were generous in detail. Jimmy was there in a long chair and I think slept through some of it. They were kind and didn't do any closeups (that I noticed). He's coasting on fumes right now.

Hillary and Bill Clinton were there, as were Joe and Jill Biden. Michelle Obama and Laura Bush attended and surprisingly, Melania was there. Everyone else wore black, Melania wore gray. While several first ladies did real hugs, as did VP Harris, Mrs. Trump did a couple of air kisses. But she did attend. The grandson Jason thanked all of the former first ladies and the current by name, noting that Rosalynn would be pleased they attended. And to Jill and Hillary, "welcome to your lovely husbands."

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 23 - 08:38 PM

Yes, it impressed me. I wonder who will attend Jimmy’s.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 23 - 06:37 PM

Did you notice that at the Athens church funeral,
the Carter family wore Hawaiian leis?
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were stationed in Hawaii
during his Navy service,
and they made lifelong friends there
who shipped leis to Georgia for the whole family.
Even Jimmy Carter wore one, a vivid red.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Feb 24 - 02:27 PM

As usual I can't link to the New York Times today,
but their feature article on Jimmy Carter noted that
it is now a year since hospice care was begun.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Feb 24 - 02:41 PM

Jimmy Carter’s Long Goodbye
The former president is on the verge of having spent a year in hospice care, once again confounding expectations in a life that has lasted nearly a century.

It starts:

Practically no one ever thought he would be elected president in the first place. Or that he would forge a landmark treaty in the Middle East. Or that he would win the Nobel Peace Prize. Or that he would beat cancer.

But Jimmy Carter has been confounding expectations throughout a life that has lasted nearly a century. And so he is again, now near the end.

Mr. Carter entered hospice care one year ago Sunday, choosing to forgo further life-prolonging treatment with the intent to return to his simple home in Plains, Ga., to pass his final days in comfort and peace. As it turns out, there have been more final days than he or anyone around him anticipated.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: Thompson
Date: 23 Feb 24 - 02:27 AM

Wasn't Carter actually successful in the hostage release, but they were released during Reagan's swearing-in?
Carter is right about Israel; its war has destroyed Gaza's education system; more and more I'm reminded of the actions of the 16th- to 18th-century English in Ireland, where they targeted poets and made all non-English education illegal (resulting in the "hedge schools" in which educated people would secretly teach Irish literature, Latin, Greek and mathematics to pupils, with one child keeping a lookout).
In Gaza, Israeli bombing, sniping, etc has so far killed some 100 academics, hundreds of teachers and thousands of students; this piece is from a couple of weeks ago so the numbers are probably larger.

Subject: RE: BS: Lucky to have Jimmy Carter
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 24 - 07:28 AM

The White House Historical Association, established by Jacqueline Kennedy, issues a Christmas tree ornament every year;
the presidents honored, one at a time, on these ornaments
have so far been deceased.

This year's Christmas tree ornament honors Jimmy Carter,
the first living former president to be so honored.

The ornament is in the shape of an anchor,
in tribute to Carter's service in the Navy.