Former President Jimmy Carter loses his 28-year-old grandson to heart failure.

[CabooseRvB]

[quote]ust hours after his 28-year-old grandson died, a shaken former President Jimmy Carter broke the news to his Plains, Georgia, church and then taught Sunday School according to the church's minister.

The grandson, Jeremy Carter, had not been feeling well and laid down to take a nap Saturday, Maranatha Baptist Church Rev. Jeremy Shoulta told CNN.

The younger Carter's heart stopped, the minister said, and the family tried CPR and rushed him to a hospital.

"They were trying to keep his heart going and eventually, later in the night or the wee hours of (Sunday) morning, his heart stopped," Shoulta said.

Despite the tragic loss, the former President taught Sunday school as he has for many years, Shoulta said.[/quote]

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Jeremy Carter is on the left.(2009)

[G-Man]

Damn. Poor man can't catch a break, can he?

Sorry for his loss.

[AntonioR]

Similar thing happened in my town few years ago. A guy in his late twenties died from a heart attack in his sleep. That is at least 20 years too soon for these things to happen.

[Cabbage]

That's pretty scary. You could go at any moment

[Smug Bastard]

I can't imagine how heartbreaking it would be to outlive your own grandkids. RIP.

[Bathtub]

Jimmy Carter is a great man, it must really suck to see someone that young and important die from something like heart failure.

[Orkel]

1 in 100,000 to 1 in 300,000 chance. Sudden cardiac arrest is quite scary.

[Dark RaveN]

[QUOTE=Cabbage;49357354]That's pretty scary. You could go at any moment[/QUOTE]

Aneurysm is even scarier, because it can happen absolutely random at any age.

[adamsz]

Good lord that's too young. I hope this doesn't put the nail in the coffin for Carter, like losing his youngest son did to Theodore Roosevelt.

[Insight]

My brother died of heart failure 12 years ago when I was 11, he was age 19. Actually it was on December 22nd, so like 12 years and 2 days.

He had even gone to the doctors a month before. Just goes to show you can go at any time.

Brother was hard enough, can't imagine what it would be like for your son to go.