Jimmy Carter, the former US president who died aged 100 on Sunday, will be honored with a state funeral before being laid to rest in his home town of Plains, Georgia, next to his wife, Rosalynn.
The proceedings to honor the 29th president of the United States will start on Saturday, when a motorcade accompanying Carter will travel through Plains to his boyhood home. The procession will briefly pause in front of his family’s farm.
From there, Carter’s remains will be taken to Atlanta, where the motorcade will stop at at Georgia’s state capitol for a moment of silence led by Georgia political leaders. Carter’s remains will then be transported to the Carter Presidential Center, where he will lie in repose until the early morning of next Tuesday, 7 January.
From there, the remains of the late president will be brought to Washington, where he will lie in state at the US Capitol.
Next Thursday, Carter will be honored at a state funeral in Washington national cathedral, with many world leaders and other former presidents expected in attendance. Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy.
The date, 9 January, has also been declared a national day of mourning in the United States.
Oh no a rich person died. How tragic.
Let’s all not forget what a shitty president this fucking guy was.
The dude who followed him was 10,000x worse.
And? That doesn’t excuse him.
He’s probably the kindest president in US history, who single-handedly eradicated an entire disease in Africa (Guinea worms), what the hell did he do to you
And if the following presidents were more like him we wouldn’t be so behing in green innovation in this country. He put solar panels on the roof of the white house and wanted to invest in renewable energy, however after he left the panels were removed because he have to love our oil buddies.