I don't mean for this to sound at all callous, but it's really amazing that Canada hadn't seen a former PM pass away since 2000: 20 years ago! With the recent news of Chretien's wife passing away too, it feels like the near future will see Canada lose quite a few historic policy-makers, & that's really unfortunate.
RIP, Prime Minister.
And before that, it had been 21 years since Diefenbaker died. So, just 2 deaths in 41 years.
We had the same thing down south. Lyndon Johnson died in 1973 which meant then-president Richard Nixon was the only living one with all his predecessors deceased. We had no presidential deaths then from 1973 until Nixon's death in 1994. Nixon due to Watergate didn't do the pomp and circumstance, so that didn't occur until Reagan's death in 2004. We had 2 deaths in 31 years, but you guys tend to have more Prime Ministers than we do presidents.
Carter is in his 90s so his death can come any day and wouldn't be a surprise. Then you have 3 presidents that were all born in 1946 (Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Trump), so should in theory die all around the same time.
Germany is more like America(but even more extreme) in how it generally has long serving Chancellors. Merkel’s predecessor is the only living ex chancellor.
