Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States, joined a hospice facility following many hospital visits, according to a February 18 announcement from the Carter Center.
The 98-year-old made the decision to forgo additional medical attention and spend his final days with his loved ones. His family is now asking for privacy and is grateful for the outpouring of support from his followers.
According to the Carter Center, his family and medical staff fully supported him in making this difficult choice. Mr. Carter has decided to choose hospice care over other therapies in order to spend his remaining time in comfort and with the people he loves.
President Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He supported a number of liberal causes during his presidency, including environmental protection and human rights.
After leaving office in 1982, Mr. Carter established the Carter Center, which has worked on several humanitarian projects all around the world.
Co-founding the Centers for Disease Control and Control, an organization devoted to disease control and eradication, election monitoring, and peace discussions, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
In an effort to defuse tensions between the two nations, President Carter visited North Korea in 1994 on behalf of former President Bill Clinton.
He later joined The Elders, a group of powerful world leaders that works to advance peace and human rights and includes Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan.
President Carter was the longest-living president in American history until George H.W. Bush passed away in 2019 at the age of 94. He received a metastatic cancer diagnosis in 2015, although he never stated how it began.
In 2015, Jimmy Carter, who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, was given a dire health prognosis: melanoma, which had spread to his brain and liver.
He boldly underwent radiation therapy and helpful immunotherapy treatments despite the grim prognosis because his cancer tests came back negative.
Even after leaving office, Jimmy continued to lead a very active life. He has written more than 30 books in the last 40 years, one of which was published in the preceding five years.
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Jimmy Carter spent each year participating with Habitat for Humanity and teaching Sunday school in Plains, Georgia, alongside his wife of 74 years, Rosalynn Carter.
They have one daughter, Amy, three sons—Jack, James III, and Donnel—and one daughter. 13 of their grandchildren have them as grandparents or great-grandparents.
Jimmy had surgery to relieve pressure on his head as a result of multiple falls he experienced in 2019.