chances of carter dying?

It can if you think outside the box.

What if they continue to produce these coins for each new dead president, two years after they pass, and what if sometime in the future we change our government such that we no longer have a president?

I know, I'm stretching, but the moral of the story is: Never say never.

 

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Odds of dying....100%!

Let's just hope he shuts up until then.

 

Gastly thread. I hope Jimmy lives to be 100.

 

I agree. We know the OP didn't mean it that way, but man, I cannot think what non-collectors would ever think of us sick jerks asking if Jimmy Carter will die "in time" for him to have a coin to buy.

You know, Google picks up CT threads pretty darn well........

 

this is a silly thread...we got asking when he's gonna die, people wanting to complete their collection' people be offended, and someone practically making odds on when...

next we'll have people trying to get a petition to carter to die promptly so the citizens of the USA can have a "complete" presidential dollar collection...and the reasoning for it is..."well he did run for office...it was his choice...so pay up" LOL...

 

here's a real Idea they should just mint carter's coin then house it in a fed bank with the rest of 'em then "release" it 2 years after he goes...it solves the "collection" and no one is asking anyone when you dying?

 

Take what they give you. When it ends, you have a complete set.

 

I hope the Presidential dollar series ends before Carter does.

 

Mees with the Mint?

They could probably care less since they just do what they are told.

I think its the "collectors" that need messing with! LOL!

 

This is the sickest thread subject I have ever seen on CoinTalk. Shame for even wondering.

Sorry, but that is my opinion.

Eck!

 

I certainly wish the former President a continued long life and many happy years. His appearance on a dollar coin will hopefully wait.

 

what a shame !

 

HW's going before him IMO, either way Carter has done great things in his civilian life. My opinion of course.

 

Edited ~ forum rules, Zsa Zsa Gabor is bedridden, has had one or two amputations, been in & out of the hospital for some serious issues and yet shes still returns home just to live life in a bed.

Keep up shes gonna outlive me & I am almost 34

 

See, I don't want to live like that (that's not really living anyways) and my living will specifically explains that I would have died way before getting parts of my body amputated, etc..

 

We all have to go some time. Don't see what's so "sick" about contemplating it. It's fair to point out that so far only 4 presidents have lived to 90 or older, and both Carter and George H.W. Bush will have their 90th birthday next year, if they live that long.

Both Carter and Bush are in fairly stable health (though was a close call with Bush recently) last I checked.

And it's a matter of interpretation as to whether or not Reagan can get a coin if Carter is still alive. Reagan died in 2004 and will have been dead 12 years (legislation says it only needs to be 2) in 2016 when his turn comes up. But it's unclear whether the president previous to him (Carter) also needs to have been dead for 2 years for him to be honored. It seems most people seem to believe so, but the legislation isn't 100% clear on the matter, it only says "they must be honored in order" which can be interpreted to mean no Reagan coin if there's no Carter coin, or just that Ford gets his, then they can move up to the next person that qualifies. The Mint hasn't officially said one way or the other (though their proposed release schedule doesn't currently include Reagan). We will see I guess.

 

This thread is evil. Live long and prosper, presidents. You may not be great human beings, but you're human beings.

 

Death pools I'll admit I find pretty sick. But contemplating whether a given person who's lived more than a decade past average life expectancy will die soon I don't see as any more "evil" than contemplating whether or not it's going to snow tomorrow. Wondering about the future is perfectly normal. Death is perfectly normal. So what's so "evil" about wondering about death in the future? We're all going to go some time; life is a terminal event. Refusing to contemplate it seems more disturbing than not, in my opinion; it just gives death a forbidden mystique it does not deserve.

P.S. Fun fact, the 150th anniversary of independence commemorative in 1926 featured Calvin Coolidge while he was still alive. Don't know why the coin legislation is so insistent on the presidents being dead first in the first place, but there you go, nobody ever accused Congress of making sense (if you think even discussing such a thing is macabre you should blame the writers of the legislation that made the death prerequisite in the first place). Thomas Kilby and Eunice Schriver were also both honored on commem. coins while still alive.

 

If you have ever lived with someone who is dying and wondered when that inevitable death wlll happen, you'll know that it is not at all like wondering what the weather will be like tomorrow.

 

No, it pretty clearly states that if there's no Carter coin, then there can be no coins after that. Presidents will not be issued out of sequence and when the first president comes that can't have a coin, the series will end.