Former US President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. This was reported on Sunday by the American media, which was referred to by the AFP agency, writes TASR. The 39th American president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate died on Sunday at his home in Plains in the US state of Georgia, his son James E. Carter III confirmed to The Washington Post. However, he did not state the immediate cause of death.
Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with brain and liver cancer in 2015 and underwent surgery and radiation therapy. According to the doctors, the treatment was successful. In 2019, he fell and suffered a hip fracture. In the same year, on March 21, he became the longest-living president in US history.
On February 18, 2023, the Carter Center announced that the former US president had switched to the so-called home hospice care. He made this decision after a series of short stays in the hospital because he wants to “spend the remaining time at home with his family and undergo hospice (or palliative) care instead of further medical interventions.” Since then, Carter has rarely appeared in public.
