Hope he makes it
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Jimmy Carter is within sight of making history yet again. Sunday marks 100 days until Carter would become the first president to witness his own 100th birthday.
Statistically, Americans have a less than 1 percent chance of living to 100. And Carter faces particularly significant challenges in reaching the milestone.
For the past 16 months, he’s been in hospice, end-of-life care that focuses on comfort and forgoes medical intervention. Half of people in hospice died within 17 days in 2020, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Yet as Carter inches closer to his 100th birthday on Oct. 1, defying odds and expectations, preparations are gearing up for the landmark event — including a 100-mile bike ride and a film festival in his home state of Georgia.
Some oddsmakers are not only taking bets on whether he will make it to his birthday but whether he will live long enough to see the end of the Ukraine war.
“People are rooting for him. He’s an icon,” said Steve Ander, 41, a D.C. data analyst and presidential history buff. To help celebrate Carter, Ander and a friend created an online clock counting down, second by second, to the former president’s birthday…….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/22/jimmy-carter-100-birthday-celebration/