Jimmy Carter commemorates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US plivent to achieve the milestone.
Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice attfinish in his home state of Georgia.
But the establisher peanut farmer, who first accessed politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionpartner graspd and still having experiences and chuckleing, loving”, his magnificentson, Jason, shelp in September.
And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to produce it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient shelp, according to his magnificentson.
To honour the occasion, volunteers with Habitat for Humanity – the housing charity Carter has labored with for 40 years – are produceing 30 homes in Minnesota this week.
Several events were organised in Plains, the establisher Georgia ruleor’s hometown, to commemorate the occasion on Tuesday.
The day began with a authenticisation ceremony for 100 people from 30 split countries who all became US citizens. In the afternoon, a military flyover – including four F-18 jets – graced the skies over Plains.
It comes after a star-studded concert was held in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this month to commemorate the 39th plivent’s milestone birthday and to lift funds for The Carter Caccess.
“It was an incredible evening, brimming of excellent music and heartfelt tributes, and it made history as the first-ever 100th birthday celebration for a living American plivent,” Carter shelp at the time.
The concert, which liftd more than $1.2m (£900,000) and also featured write downed messages from other plivents, will air on Georgia Public Broadcasting on Tuesday. Dozens of musical acts executeed at the event and thousands joined.
The establisher plivent will be watching the expansivecast on Tuesday, his family shelp.
Carter, who was not able to join the concert in person, made a exceptional accessible materializeance in November 2023 when he joined a memorial service for his wife Rosalynn who died aged 96 earlier that month.
Their 77-year marriage remains the extfinishedest of any first couple.
When Carter first accessed hospice attfinish in Plains, Georgia, in February 2023, some relatives inestablishedly felt he only had a matter of days left to live.
“It’s a gift,” Josh Carter, another of his magnificentsons, shelp of the last scant months in a recent intersee with the New York Times. “It’s a gift that I didn’t comprehend we were going to get.”
Others say Carter’s story has also liftd consciousness of the advantages of hospice attfinish. “We are all rooting for Jimmy Carter,” Barbara Pearce, the CEO of Connecticut Hospice, telderly the BBC’s US partner CBS News.
“He has done more for us than we could ever do for ourselves by pointing out that it’s a reasonable choice to produce,” she shelp. “He’s donaten everybody perignoreion to consider [hospice care] as a reasonable chooseion that doesn’t unwiseinutiveen their life, but does incrrelieve their console and fulfilment.”
