In 2019, just hours after being released from a Georgia hospital following a fall that resulted in a pelvic fracture, former President Jimmy Carter, who had just turned 95, headed to Nashville, Tenn., to continue the volunteer work that had become an abiding passion of his life.
"I fell down and hit my forehead on a sharp edge and had to go to the hospital. And they took 14 stitches in my forehead and my eye is black, as you've noticed," Carter told reporters gathered at the event
“And he didn't want to die in the hospital alone. There's a kind of an interesting closure to it. He was the first American president born in a hospital, but you don't want to die in a hospital and he wants to do it on his own terms. You have to respect that.” For the next 35 years, the Carters worked alongside more than 100,000 volunteers across the U.S. and 14 countries to build, renovate and repair more than 4,300 homes, according to Habitat.
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