Rosalynn Carter dies at 96

My wife hit the agree button.
She says you misspelled "insane" .

 

Hospice has added components that it didnt use to have. It is not JUST end of life care. So you will see more people involved and still living for lengthy periods

 

As a long time employee for Habitat For Humanity, I have seen their impact.

Had a chance to hear them speak about 5 years ago at our global conference in ATL.

A memory I cherish. Being in their company is something meaningful.

 

That seems to be the anecdotal case but is it actual?

 

I hate to admit it but I voted for Jimmy, the last Democrat I ever voted for. Guess it was Jimmy that turned me Republican.

 

Yes. I've read about this happening a number of times over the years.

Do People Really Die of Broken Hearts?

On Wednesday morning, former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie’s father, Dick, died of a heart attack. Less than one hour later, his mother, Joan, also died — also of a heart attack. In a post written later that day on Facebook, Flutie said, “They say you can die of a broken heart and I believe it.”

The Fluties had been married for 56 years, and the story of their death is one you hear from time to time: longtime couples who are as inseparable in death as they were in life, with one dying shortly after the other. Perhaps the most famous example is that of Johnny and June Cash, who died within just four months of each other. But there’s also Bernard and Irene Jordan, an elderly English couple who died within a week of each other in January, or Ruth and Harold Knapke, who were married for 65 years and whose deaths were just 11 hours apart in 2013. And just a few months ago, Jeanette and Alexander Toczko — married for 75 years — died within 24 hours of each other in their home. Alexander passed away first, in Jeanette’s arms.

 

How incredibly inappropriate. Something seriously wrong.

 

Not to nitpick but the plural of anecdote is not data.

 

FFS, read the article before asking such inane comments.

“It’s known as the widowhood effect, considered by social scientists to be “one of the best documented examples of the effect of social relations on health,” as Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard and Felix Elwert of the University of Wisconsin–Madison wrote in 2008, in what is perhaps the best existing study on the subject. Previously, as Christakis and Elwert note in their paper, research suggested that within the three months after one spouse dies, the chance that the other will follow is anywhere from 30 to 90 percent.

For their study, they went big — it’s the largest and most comprehensive research project to date on the phenomenon. Christakis and Elwert analyzed nine years’ worth of data collected from nearly 373,189 elderly married couples in the U.S., specifically looking at when each half of the pair died, and why. Their findings showed an 18 percent increase in “all-cause mortality” for men whose wives died first; for women, the risk is 16 percent. “The death of a spouse, for whatever reason, is a significant threat to health and poses a substantial risk of death by whatever cause,” they conclude.”

 

It wasn’t a couple but I think it was a similar effect with Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

 

A person could enumerate with the fingers of one hand the nation's first ladies who would have donated time and energy to doing what Mrs. Carter did as depicted in this photo, and still have fingers left.

 

I’m not a Christian but I’ve always thought the Carters lived by the spirit of teachings of Jesus, to the extent I was exposed to those teachings.

 

Carrie Fishers mom may be an example of what you speak.