Just assuming this has been updated or whatnot but everything I’ve heard Rosalynn was a great person. Don’t wanna see her or Jimmy’s legacy tarnished by edgy people both legit good people.
Yes it messed up completely disrespectful, my point was hoping that doesn’t lessen both Carter’s impacts and realizing good things can happen.
I hoped that edgelords wouldn’t focus on dumbass posting of a false death notice instead of acknowledging the actual person who passed away. My apologies.
i'm surprised he's still alive to be honest. people together that long don't typically make it long without their spouse.
Good luck to me ever hearing about Jimmy and Rosalynn without thinking of that hilarious forced perspective pic with the Bidens.
Yea I'll be surprised if he's around at Xmas. Not rooting for that, but yea. Stuff like this spirals me into a mid-life crisis so I don't like thinking about it.
My grandmother passed away this year at 92 years old after 73 years of marriage. Grandad is doing well all things considered, and we all check in with him frequently, but it’s hard not to shake these thoughts. He’s doing a good job staying active and finding things to do, but he’s told me he doesn’t know how to exist without her. It’s fucking heartbreaking.
Oof, that's tough. All of my grandparents either died when I was young or were assholes so I have no reference. I just start thinking about me without my wife now, I'd be freaking lost, and we've been together less than 20 years. I can't imagine 70+ years. Your partner is just a piece of you at that point.
Basically the same for mine but two years ago. My grandpa lost all pleasure in watching soccer or game shows afterwards.
I remember very specifically at my grandpa's funeral reception sitting with my grandmother, her telling me she kept finding herself looking around for my grandpa thinking she needed to check on him, if he needed anything, etc.
My grandpa for almost a decade would talk about reading something interesting and shouting for my grandma or going to walk into the office where she spent most her time to chat Said it started very painful but eventually it comforted him when he did it Devastating
If yall wanna get sad and cry about this topic, this is a great song. https://music.apple.com/us/album/if-we-were-vampires/1216344634?i=1216344997
https://www.theonion.com/jimmy-carter-sprays-a-little-cologne-down-front-of-pant-1851059346 Jimmy Carter Sprays A Little Cologne Down Front Of Pants Before Big First Date Publishedan hour ago PLAINS, GA—As he finished getting ready for his first night out since the passing of his wife Rosalynn earlier this month, former President Jimmy Carter reportedly sprayed a little cologne down the front of his pants Thursday before a big first date. “I just might get lucky, so I better make sure she likes the smell downstairs,” said the 99-year-old Carter, holding open his waistband and reaching inside to apply a generous quantity of Brut eau de toilette spray to his penis and scrotum. “Yes, sir, this could be the night I catch me some strange. Better squirt some of this stuff on my [adjustable home hospital bed] too, in case we come back to my place. Hot night on the town for Mr. Jimmy!” At press time, Carter was reportedly licking a finger to turn a page in a well-thumbed copy of Neil Strauss’ The Game.
Hospice is the best and if everyone was on it for a year and not ten minutes the world would be better Our hospice had average length of 14 days and we were very high nationally last I looked
Wondering if it's that or just the mental block from the patient/family not wanting to admit they're dying and think that hospice is "giving up"
It's incredibly inexpensive compared to end of life care and covered completely by Medicare. This is why but it also includes physicians not wanting to admit it either.
Agree with $P1 above. We have a culture that tends not to acknowledge death, so when the inevitable comes, we're usually unprepared for it. Between working in the hospital, and my wife who works in hospice, what we notice is that the patients are often emotionally and spiritually prepared for it long before the family (who don’t want to “give up”). However, by the time the hospice conversation comes up, the patient is often past the point of communicating their wishes to their providers and to their family, and so when they do go on hospice it typically goes fast (e.g. < 2 weeks). The reaper is coming for us all. Make sure to have a POLST form, and to have that conversation with your family long before you’re ill about what interventions you would and would not want, and when you'd decline further care (e.g. brain death, after 10 minutes of CPR, chronic g-tube, etc). I see a lot of patients experience unnecessary pain in their final weeks or days simply because the family isn’t ready to let go. Edit - This, too. It’s a difficult conversation for physicians to initiate, especially with families who are understandably in an emotional place, and for physicians who might have their facility’s mortality numbers impacted.