One of the cites in that Wikipedia article is a Straight Dope column. 
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.
Marvelous, beowulff – thanks for sharing.
Yes @beowulff , not only great shots (and thanks for sharing!), but also that you were able to locate them after 44 years!
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.
Not much has been publicly revealed by his family, other than that they didn’t expect he’d be in hospice for this long, but that, although he sleeps a lot, his grandson reports that “he’s still there” and he’s “holding on” in order to vote for Kamala Harris.
I never had a beer with Jimmy. But there is still time!
Jimmy has said that he wants to have the chance to vote for Kamala Harris.
I’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.
Mine is probably the UFO sighting, which turned out to be a rocket launch from a nearby military base.
Just make sure it’s not Billy Beer. Nasty stuff, that.
Talk about polar opposites!
No… 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 wasn’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 wasn’t the unique, the pure, honest, non-politician guy that the press painted him as.
I sure voted for him, though.
Well, he will know very soon.
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.
The press didn’t have to paint it. People saw it.
So I just read that Legos are listed for ages 4-99.
I sure hope nobody took Jimmy’s Legos away!
Turns out the “UFO sighting” happened in 1969. Anyway, here’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 it’s been almost a year!).
“Skeptics Guide To The Universe” podcast have Jimmy as a guest, conserning his UFO sighting. 07/25/2007 Episode #105 | The Skeptics Guide to the Universe (The brain boxes are they)
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.
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 don’t remember anything like the image JAQ linked to.
It’s in the SNL skit about the Pepsi Syndrome 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.
The 1976 election marked my very earliest and faintest awareness of politics. I didn’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 I’m told that I toddled up to a TV where the news was showing the candidates, pointed to Carter, and said, “He’s gonna win.” Probably I just liked his smile.
Still…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.