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I guess ex-Presidents get an extension: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-23/jimmy-carter-3-months-into-hospice-is-aware-of-tributes-enjoying-

• arp242 3y ago
  It really just depends on the illness and how it progresses, which is hard to predict. Both my grandparents died of cancer; my grandmother spent close to a year in a hospice, using quite a lot of morphine, slowly fading away, while my (otherwise fit and active) grandfather went from "I've got a stomach ache, better see a doctor" to "dead" in about two weeks.