Posted on 03/13/2024 7:56:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Last month, former President Jimmy Carter marked one year in hospice. After entering end-of-life care in February 2023, he celebrated his 99th birthday and grieved the death of his wife of 77 years and former first lady, Rosalynn Carter.
Even then, Carter was able — with help — to attend her funeral.
Even at the end of life, the nation’s longest-living president — someone who “practically no one ever thought” would be elected president, writes the New York Times’ Peter Baker — is defying the odds.
According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 90% of patients who enter hospice care die within the first six months. Roughly 36% of patients die within a week of entering hospice.
End-of-life advocates and experts cite Carter’s stay in hospice as having a positive impact on the discourse surrounding end-of-life care — a medical service that Northeastern University experts say many people put off until it’s too late.
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Carter and Biden have something in common other than having been horrible Presidents. Both belong in hospice care except Biden is too senile to realize it
The good die young.
The dim witted post platitudes.
Yeah. Sometimes there is no "right" decision. We do the best we can with what we've got and what we know at the time. The best we can doesn't always feel like the best we could have if we'd only known.
Forgiving ourselves for not doing enough, when at the time it was the best we could do, seems impossibly difficult.
It was a tough decision at the time, but I know now that I did the right thing, more than nine years later.
Generally, but I don’t for a minute think Biden is your
regular run of the mill Hospice patient.
That was leaked to get him brownie points. He’s been
very good at that sort of thing over the years.
As others have said, I believe he’s getting the best care
our tax dollars can buy.
The Left idolizes him. They’ll throw him a gosh over the
top send off that would gag a maggot.
never let a crisis go by without using it somehow.
1976 - Carter ran against Ford. I cried that night as they announced Carter won.
Reagan won in 1980 and in 1984. long lines both times.
What’s silly about honesty
You have been all that stalwart gop since the placenta era but plenty given average age here likely supported Carter in 76
Folksy bullshit plus the difference tween GOP and dems was more blurry then
Plenty mostly southern Dems were more culture right than the Rockefeller Gop
Think Sam nunn or scoop Jackson
Course all but the stupidest learned from his disastrous term
Times were different
Id bet at least 25% here voted Carter in 76
With a cliff dive from that in same group in 1980
The irony is this election conservatives of whatever niche via Trumps new brand and realignment may actually give control to our side of the GOPe
Reagan tried but bush part one snatched it back in 88 sadly
I turned 18 in 75
Not as smart as u till 1980 election
Same here
He must think he is a Senator. As if dying as a Senator has some virtue.
Like Ted Kennedy, The Hanoi Songbird(McCain), an Diane Feinstein.
He just has a case of malaise.
Me too same exactly
Our family was divided
Goldwater daddy voted Ford
Me and mom Carter
Divided bumper stickers lol
“Lust in my heart”
Hell I had lust there and elsewhere
Reagan not only challenged Ford for the GOP nomination in 1976, he previously had run against Nixon in the open 1968 GOP primary.
One of my high school pals and I snuck into the Anaheim Convention Center and saw Reagan and Nixon appearing at an event there. “Security” was lax enough that a couple of teenage yokels were able to wander loose among the $1,000 donors. We didn’t stick around long enough to get caught.
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