President Carter was diagnosed with metastatic cancer in 2015, although he did not specify where cancer began.

Later that year, he reported that melanoma had been diagnosed in his brain and liver and that he had begun treatment with radiation therapy and an immunotherapy drug. In December 2015, he stated that his cancer testing had returned hostile.

The lawmaker fell several times in 2019 and later needed surgery in the hospital to relieve pressure on his brain caused by the fall’s hemorrhage.

Throughout the forty years since leaving office, he has written 30 novels, the most recently published only five years ago.

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Jimmy continued to teach Sunday school in Plains, Georgia. He would spend a week each year with his wife Rosalynn, whom he married in 1946, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.

Jimmy and Rosalynn have three sons, Jack, James III, and Donnel, and one daughter, Amy. They also have 13 great-grandchildren and 12 grandchildren.