The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

[The Rotrex Kid]

BBC round up of the years notable deaths - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c789l8p8j7lo

[craigjm]

tdm34 said:

Former President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100.

That’s quite an innings

[Tango13]

craigjm said:

tdm34 said:

Former President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100.

That’s quite an innings

Had a submarine instead of an aircraft carrier named after him...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

[yellowjack]

Tango13 said:

craigjm said:

tdm34 said:

Former President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100.

That’s quite an innings

Had a submarine instead of an aircraft carrier named after him...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

He served in the US Navy Submarine Service, so it was probably a more appropriate vessel to name after him.

Apparently cancer did for him in the end. Melanoma, mestastisized into his liver and brain. He'd declined further intervention, and gone into hospice care at the end.

[Chauffard]

At nearly 44 years the longest ever retired president.

RIP Jimmy.

[Byker28i]

He worked endlessly for Habitat for Humanity. They've written a fitting epitaph
https://www.habitat.org/newsroom/2024/habitat-huma...



Not only that but so much more.

President Carter appointed more minorities and women to the bench than all previous presidents combined. He was the first President to embrace the concept of bringing racial diversity to the federal bench.

When The Carter Center began leading the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases in at least 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Today, that number has been reduced by more than 99.99%. In 2024 so far there have been 7 cases

[Byker28i]

Lida Lavin died as well. NY Theatre have a list of 50 notables who died this year
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/12/24/in-memoriam-t...

[Byker28i]

Mike Luckovich has three excellent cartoons created for Jimmy Carter
https://bsky.app/profile/mluckovich.bsky.social/po...

[Bonefish Blues]

Carter never took a cent personally for a speaking engagement post his Presidency. Compare & contrast, as they say.

[gusko]

President Carter had solar panels installed at the whitehouse when he was there....Reagan took them down

[ajprice]

https://bsky.app/profile/christhebarker.bsky.socia...

v4 of the Sgt Peppers cover, probably the last update.

[the tribester]

No 5, Donald Sutherland, I remember that scene sending shudders down my spine when I first saw the film. Great choice.

[gareth_r]

I hadn't heard that Tony Soper, co-founder of the BBC Natural History Unit in 1957, died in September at the age of 95. As a child, I avidly watched BBC wildlife programmes, such as Look, which he presented.

[Bonefish Blues]

It was on here I recall - several of us remarked on his age & longevity having remembered him too (and not appreciated how influential he'd been, thinking him just a presenter)

[Castrol for a knave]

Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham 6, aged 80.

Read his book a few years ago. Still not convinced the State has moved on much....

[Speed 3]

ajprice said:

https://bsky.app/profile/christhebarker.bsky.socia...

v4 of the Sgt Peppers cover, probably the last update.

184 & 190 somewhat provocative

[mikeiow]

Speed 3 said:

184 & 190 somewhat provocative

& yet feel about right

[eldar]

mikeiow said:

Speed 3 said:

184 & 190 somewhat provocative

& yet feel about right

There is a small chance of resurrection, though

[Chauffard]

eldar said:

mikeiow said:

Speed 3 said:

184 & 190 somewhat provocative

& yet feel about right

There is a small chance of resurrection, though

Sadly, no hope for Free Speech, which has been on palliative care for a number of years.

[cuprabob]

Chauffard said:

Sadly, no hope for Free Speech, which has been on palliative care for a number of years.

You can't say that.