# Rest in Peace, Jimmy Carter who turned 100 on October 1st. Amazing (has died, Dec. 29, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 27, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838 "2024-07-27T00:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/61 "2024-10-02T01:30:06Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > My favorite Jimmy Carter story has to be the killer rabbit attack One of the cites in that Wikipedia article is a Straight Dope column. šŸ•¶ ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/62 "2024-10-02T02:46:38Z")
I have a question about his health: Is he alert and aware? He has been in hospice for a year and a half My only experience [with 2 relatives in home hospice care ) has been sad, and short. A month or two, with occasional moments when I was able to get the patient to respond to simple yes-or-no questions. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/63 "2024-10-02T11:08:30Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Photos I took in Youngstown, OH during his 1980 campaign: Marvelous, beowulff ā€“ thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/64 "2024-10-03T02:33:21Z")
Yes @beowulff , not only great shots (and thanks for sharing!), but also that you were able to locate them after 44 years! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/65 "2024-10-03T03:27:15Z")
LOL. I had to flip through my old notebooks full of negatives to find them, and then download the latest drivers for my slide scanner to get them scanned. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/66 "2024-10-03T03:58:24Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I have a question about his health: Is he alert and aware? Not much has been publicly revealed by his family, other than that they didnā€™t expect heā€™d be in hospice for this long, but that, although he sleeps a lot, his grandson reports that ā€œheā€™s still thereā€ and heā€™s ā€œholding onā€ in order to vote for Kamala Harris. > [@](#): > > In May 2024, Jason offered another update on his grandfather, during the Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy. ā€œI said, ā€˜Pawpaw, people ask me how youā€™re doing, and I say, I donā€™t know.ā€™ And he said, ā€˜well, I donā€™t know myself,ā€™ā€ Jason said, per the _[Georgia Recorder](https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/jimmy-carters-grandson-says-he-believes-ailing-former-president-nearing-the-end/)_. ā€œHeā€™s still there.ā€ Jason added, ā€œThereā€™s a part of this faith journey that is so important to him, and thereā€™s a part of that faith journey that you only can live at the very end. And I think he has been there in that space.ā€ > > A month later, Jason spoke with _[Southern Living](https://www.southernliving.com/jimmy-carter-update-grandson-jason-carter-plains-8660173)_, saying thereā€™s ā€œreally been no changeā€ in Carterā€™s condition, saying his grandfather ā€œexperiencing the world as best he can as he continues through this process.ā€ He added that Carter is no longer awake every day. > > However, in August 2024, Jason offered new insight into his grandfather: He [plans to stay alive to vote for Kamala Harris](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a61791791/jimmy-carter-kamala-harris-vote-plans/). (Early voting begins in Georgia on October 15.) At the Democratic National Convention, Jason spoke, reiterating this sentiment, and saying Carter ā€œcanā€™t waitā€ to vote for Harris, and is ā€œholding on.ā€ He said, ā€œthough his body may be weak tonight, his spirit is as strong as ever.ā€ > > Jason emphasized [this to](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a62008237/jason-carter-jimmy-carter-health-interview-2024/)_[T&C](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a62008237/jason-carter-jimmy-carter-health-interview-2024/)_ after the DNC, saying, ā€œHeā€™s excited to cast a ballotā€”for a host of reasonsā€”for [Kamala Harris](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/g61679126/kamala-harris-photos/). Thereā€™s a lot of poetry to it, if you want to go down that line. He also is excited to turn the page on this Donald Trump era that has really been defined by a meanness and a darkness thatā€™s very different than what Jimmy Carter has always been about.ā€ > **[Jimmy Carter Celebrates His 100th Birthday in Hospice Care](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a46795564/jimmy-carter-hospice-health-updates-2024/)** > > Carter is the nation's longest-living president. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/67 "2024-10-03T04:10:18Z")
I never had a beer with Jimmy. But there is still time! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/68 "2024-10-03T04:52:47Z")
Jimmy has said that he wants to have the chance to vote for Kamala Harris. Iā€™m guessing that this family had a gene for pancreatic cancer, the way one branch of my family tree (one I thankfully did not sprout from) has the gene for ovarian cancer. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/69 "2024-10-03T04:56:45Z")
Mine is probably the UFO sighting, which turned out to be a rocket launch from a nearby military base. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/70 "2024-10-03T09:04:45Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I never had a beer with Jimmy. But there is still time! Just make sure itā€™s not Billy Beer. Nasty stuff, that. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/71 "2024-10-03T11:29:52Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > ā€¦thereā€™s a part of that faith journey that you only can live at the very endā€¦ šŸ˜¢ > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > ā€¦this Donald Trump era that has really been defined by a meanness and a darkness thatā€™s very different than what Jimmy Carter has always been about.ā€ Talk about polar opposites! ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/72 "2024-10-03T11:31:12Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Mine is probably the UFO sighting, Noā€¦ for me, that was something Carter did which made me lose respect for him. He went to a convention of UFO conspiacy fanatics, and told them that he had seen a UFO. This is cheap politician-speak, telling people what they want to hear. Carter knew that whatever he had seen, it wasnā€™t aliens. But he knew what the crowd wanted to hear, and a vote is a vote, right? Not a huge issue,but it showed me that Carter wasnā€™t the unique, the pure, honest, non-politician guy that the press painted him as. I sure voted for him, though. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/73 "2024-10-03T13:29:58Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Carter knew that whatever he had seen, it wasnā€™t aliens. Well, he will know very soon. > [@chappachula](#): > > But he knew what the crowd wanted to hear, and a vote is a vote, right? I believe he spoke honestly about what he saw. No one who has seen these _things_ (and there have been thousands of sightings) has been able to explain exactly what each one was. Some have been explained, others not. I absolutely will never believe Carter would intentionally lie to anyone just to get a vote. > [@chappachula](#): > > Not a huge issue,but it showed me that Carter wasnā€™t the unique, the pure, honest, non-politician guy that the press painted him as. The press didnā€™t have to paint it. People saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/74 "2024-10-04T21:30:21Z")
So I just read that Legos are listed for ages 4-99. I sure hope nobody took Jimmyā€™s Legos away! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/75 "2024-10-04T23:22:02Z")
Turns out the ā€œUFO sightingā€ happened in 1969. Anyway, hereā€™s a hospice nurse discussing why he looks and acts the way he does. My own father looked and acted a lot like that after he had his stroke (hard to believe itā€™s been almost a year!). > **[Jimmy Carter is 100! This is why he looks like this...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCUi5ofizTQ%2F)** > > When dealing with any medically related events or medical emergencies, please communicate with your primary health care provider.Join this channel to get acc... ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/76 "2024-10-05T13:55:20Z")
ā€œSkeptics Guide To The Universeā€ podcast have Jimmy as a guest, conserning his UFO sighting. 07/25/2007 [Episode #105 | The Skeptics Guide to the Universe](https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-105) (The brain boxes are they) ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/77 "2024-10-05T14:09:17Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And it was only 48 years ago that he was doused with radiation and became > > THE AMAZING COLOSSAL PRESIDENT > > This picture will illustrate how large the president has become. > > [https://tmi.papost.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/snl11.jpg](https://tmi.papost.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/snl11.jpg) Nitpick here: I believe the irradiation that gave him superpowers was in the cleanup after the December 1952 Chalk River acident, i.e. 71 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/78 "2024-10-05T14:23:49Z")
I believe the incident JAQ was refering to was a skit on SNL based on Three Mile Island. At least I remember such a skit, although I donā€™t remember anything like the image JAQ linked to. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/79 "2024-10-05T15:11:35Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > although I donā€™t remember anything like the image JAQ linked to. Itā€™s in the SNL skit about the [Pepsi Syndrome](https://www.facebook.com/tapewrecks/videos/the-pepsi-syndrome/533858710873763/) starting at the 10:50 mark. Then Jimmy shows up larger than life through a window looking into press conferance. This is classic much watch stuff with Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Baba Walters and more giving great appearnces. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838/80 "2024-10-05T15:38:21Z")
The 1976 election marked my very earliest and faintest awareness of politics. I didnā€™t actually understand what was going on, but I remember the news being on TVs a lot more. (I grew up in a TV repair shop, so I was constantly surrounded by television, but they were usually turned to soaps or sports.) And Iā€™m told that I toddled up to a TV where the news was showing the candidates, pointed to Carter, and said, ā€œHeā€™s gonna win.ā€ Probably I just liked his smile. Stillā€¦thank you, Mr. Carter, for proving a tiny little child a better judge of character than half the modern voting public. And thank you for being a decent man in an all-too-often indecent job. May you find what comfort you can, and may we both see another victory for decency in the office you once held. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-jimmy-carter-who-turned-100-on-october-1st-amazing-has-died-dec-29-2024/1004838.md?page=5)