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The Supreme Court announced that former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, passed away Friday morning. She was 93 years old.
O’Connor was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981. She retired in 2006.
Fox News revealed that O’Connor died from complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.
Chief Justice John Roberts paid tribute to Justice O’Connor in a statement. more
The first and worst!
Oh, well.
Well, at least she retired instead of hanging on while deteriorating, like most of our current politicians!
My favorite Sandra Day O’Connor story is when she attended some event that was also attended by a very inebriated Redskins tight end John Riggins when he urged her. Lighten up Sandy baby!!
Not a good year for fully vaxxed O’Connors – I guess Nothing Compares To Abortion.
“stopped Al Gore’s …. ensured George W. Bush.”
To-may-to – to-mah-to, same shit new day.
Lighten up, Sandy Baby…
They say that deaths like this happen in threes, first, Rosslyn, then Sandra Day O’Connor and next Jimmy Carter who is 99 and won’t make it until Christmas or at the latest New Years.
I never liked SD O’C, much of what she had to say, the way she was the leading edge of the identity politics we suffer from now, or pretty much anything she did on the bench.
But I think that’s a terrible way to die.
And I know whereof I speak.
…My mother, in her mid ’80s, is in the early stages of dementia. This was a very sharp woman with a mathematical mind who worked her way from volunteer to being an NP corporate VP at the same job for almost four decades, stayed married to the same man for 49 years until he died, and also kept a home and raised four kids after she and my dad came from WVA with little but shiny new accounting degrees and a serious worth ethic. She was independent as hell after my dad passed many years ago, adding a clutch of grandkids and great grandkids and continued to live, and even work, independently until very recently.
Medical events forced her to the hospital and will likely keep her in some form of assisted living until she, too, catches a wandering respiratory infection or some other nosocomial disease and succumbs to it, if her doctors don’t kill her first.
I’ve spent way too much time around hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and transporting the elderly in crisis to hospitals to have any illusions about how this ends. I don’t get to lie to myself and I have to keep my mouth firmly shut around others so as to not destroy THEIR hope. This is a horrible way to die, and the victim actually dies in mind before she dies in body, and not just once but dies a piece at a time so there’s always fresh cause for mourning with each new realization of what isn’t there any more, and what is yet to come.
The alternative is she dies at home and some lucky kid or grandkid gets to discover her body. The way my niece discovered her grandfather’s body after his heart killed him when he was alone in the home I was raised in. The way the same niece found her grandmother in dire medical straights this time and nearly had another death right in front of her. I’ve seen that too and you don’t have to see too many dead people still strapped to a bucket toilet in the middle of their living room because their elderly spouse could no longer get them to the bathroom to think that whole “dying at home” thing isn’t as romantic as it’s cracked up to be.
Lousy choices.
Lousy disease.
Wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Not even SD O’C.
…but as someone said above, it’s to her credit that she bowed out gracefully, unlike the current neurosyphiliptic demented fraud currently squatting in the White House. At least she had the wisdom to spend her sunset years in retirement and not tottering around on a world stage, humiliating herself and shaming everyone who loved her. At least she withdrew with dignity intact.
No, I didn’t like what she was or what she did.
But I can certainly empathize with what her family has gone through, and what she, herself must have gone through as she KNEW she was losing bits of herself and becoming more and more distant from the present, but powerless to change it or even know everything that she lost.
My mother liked her. As a career woman when being a career woman wasn’t cool, I’d be surprised if she hadn’t. Perhaps I’ll tell her later. She may hear it before I tell her, but there’s a very good chance she won’t remember it even if so.
Nor will she remember me telling her 5 minutes later. Or that I was even there. Such is the curse of this disease.
RIP Sandra Day O’Conner.
May the Lord bless and comfort her family in their hour of need.
And may the Lord yet lift this scourge from all who suffer from it now.
@geoff the aardvark: I was hoping Biden would be #3.
Joey could be # 4.
Died from the complications of being tongue bathed for a period of 40 years by every leftie in the media and education. Must have been grueling to be considered so stunning and so brave for half your life
A while back, they renamed ASU’s Law School after a certain somebody. Can you even guess who? Go ahead, give it a shot
greasing the skids for someone who is not a biologist
I have long held a soft spot for Sandra Day O’Connor. In the 2000, there was a Supreme Court decision that directly impacted me. I was a widowed mother of a baby and was being sued for “grandparent’s rights” by my evil mother-in-law. The Troxel v. Granville decision ending “grandparent’s rights” stopped that BS in its tracks. Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the majority decision.
From Troxel v. Granville: “In an ideal world, parents might always seek to cultivate the bonds between grandparents and their grandchildren. Needless to say, however, our world is far from perfect, and in it the decision whether such an intergenerational relationship would be beneficial in any specific case is for the parent to make…”
Well said, Sandra. Well said.
SNS (Super Nightshade) Friday, 1 December 2023, 12:56 at 12:56 pm
“I never liked SD O’C, much of what she had to say, the way she was the leading edge of the identity politics we suffer from now, or pretty much anything she did on the bench.
But I think that’s a terrible way to die.
And I know whereof I speak.”
One of the most coherent, understandable, knowledgeable, God-gifted, real-life, as well as, medically experienced and talented, Commenting Writers who continues to Bless this IOTW Report site over the the years I have had the privilege of reading and collecting his many writings.
His Comment today has been read, noted and added to my personal archive of SNS’s writings just in case he is forgotten as one of the more talented of American writers in the 21st Century (in one man’s opinion).
…you are very kind, or an epic troll, I’m not perceptive enough to know which. Either way, all I write is what I know as it seems to me to pertain to the thread, out of my own experience as no one else’s is mine to know. My experience comes from the path He has appointed me, both the bitter and the sweet, and often as not I’m a side character in my own story.
God wrote my story, for better or for worse.
I simply sometimes hold the pen.
Nope. No trolling. Straight shooter, and also somewhat a writer.
Appointee by REAGAN your set point Nancy-boy republican.