• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    There are quite a few anecdotal cases of people dying shortly after retirement, or shortly after a spouse dies. Death is complicated and sometimes people “hold on” for weird and unexplained reasons.

    People in terminal condition have a habit of dying when loved ones are out of the room.

    Does Jimmy Carter feel like this election is something major he needs to accomplish before he goes? Maybe. Or maybe he just keeps busy with all of his volunteer work and other philanthropy, which is keeping him around.

    Maybe he’s just one of the lucky ones that happens to be healthy and sharp at 100 for reasons we don’t know.

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      9 hours ago

      There was some study of heartbreak syndrome, apparently when a spouse dies the stress and emotions can mess with hormones/adreniline, etc and cause issues with the connective tissues in the heart (weaken or harden, I forget) and impedes the heart sonetimes till it stops working , so died of " broken heart " is a real thing

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 hours ago

      I like to think as it takes a carpenter to build a house. And since Carter has built so many. God is thinking that he doesn’t want him to die like Jesus did. Also I think God is pretty much like build one more house and you will be sent up don’t pass go just go straight in and fuck saint peter.