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ItsjustMe

(11,230 posts)
Fri Dec 31, 2021, 08:19 PM Dec 2021

Betty White 'Died Peacefully in Her Sleep' at Home, Agent Says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/betty-white-died-peacefully-in-her-sleep-at-home-agent-says/ar-AASk6nD

Betty White "died peacefully in her sleep at her home early this morning," her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas tells PEOPLE.

Witjas previously confirmed to PEOPLE that the beloved comedian had died on Friday at age 99, just two and a half weeks before what would have been her centennial birthday.

"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," he said in an earlier statement. "I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. I don't think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again."
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Betty White 'Died Peacefully in Her Sleep' at Home, Agent Says (Original Post) ItsjustMe Dec 2021 OP
A peaceful goodbye Deuxcents Dec 2021 #1
Indeed. A lovely way to go to be with her beloved. dhol82 Dec 2021 #2
Oh gosh!! I will miss her..always had such a wonderful perspective on life RIP Betty PortTack Dec 2021 #3
That's the way I want to go. Lunabell Dec 2021 #4
My grandpa went in his sleep. Drunken Irishman Dec 2021 #5
I love Ryan Reynolds tweet: dflprincess Dec 2021 #6
As a nurse on night shift I once went into a patients room tavernier Dec 2021 #7
That's the way to go.....Betty was the last one to know she left. RicROC Jan 2022 #8
My mother was talking to my dead father 3 days before she died. Texaswitchy Jan 2022 #9
I'm glad for her. nt Hortensis Jan 2022 #10
Death would have had a fight on Its hands if she had been awake. Aristus Jan 2022 #11

Lunabell

(6,080 posts)
4. That's the way I want to go.
Fri Dec 31, 2021, 10:39 PM
Dec 2021

Not any time soon. But that's the best way. Just peacefully slipping away on to whatever lies beyond. RIP, Betty. Such a great woman.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
5. My grandpa went in his sleep.
Fri Dec 31, 2021, 10:48 PM
Dec 2021

He was 79. He woke up, screamed something to my grandma, and then passed away.

I think it was a massive stroke (he had a stroke seven years earlier that left him paralyzed). I assume it was fairly peaceful.

dflprincess

(28,075 posts)
6. I love Ryan Reynolds tweet:
Fri Dec 31, 2021, 10:56 PM
Dec 2021

"The world looks different now. She was great at defying expectation. She managed to grow very old and somehow, not old enough. We’ll miss you, Betty. Now you know the secret.”

tavernier

(12,388 posts)
7. As a nurse on night shift I once went into a patients room
Fri Dec 31, 2021, 11:19 PM
Dec 2021

to awake her for her meds. She was a little unhappy because she had been talking to her husband in her dream and wasn’t happy to be awakened. The next night I came again with the meds as usual. This time she had gone away with her husband. Made me smile.

Texaswitchy

(2,962 posts)
9. My mother was talking to my dead father 3 days before she died.
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 06:29 PM
Jan 2022

The hospice nurse told me the time was coming.


She left on her terms.


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