This woman refuses to retire and refuses to die.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-cancer-chemotherapy/index.html

Patsy Mink was also recovering from viral pneumonia brought on by chickenpox ...

until the day she died. 

I see no reason to believe Ginsburg is not doing the exact same thing -- hanging onto life as hard as she can until after the next election is over ... and then another 4 years if Trump wins.   

Patsy was reported to be getting better, because the campaign didn't want to remove her name from the General Election ballot.  If they had, the Republican challenger would have won.  Now, of course, history records that she was in "steady decline," even though the Hawaii Dems kept saying the exact opposite.

They kept her alive (as far as we know) until the deadline to remove her name had passed.  Then, coincidentally, so did she.

Patsy won the General Election race for her seat posthumously, and Ed Case (D) won the special election (paid for by our taxes) to serve out the reminder of Patsy's term.

'The Democratic Party is imploding,'' said Ira Rohter, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. '
'Right now, there is no Democratic Party here, just a lot of feuding factions. It's like watching a Three Stooges skit.''

Nowhere is the Democrats' disarray more evident than in the unseemly free-for-all to replace Representative Patsy Mink,
who died on Sept. 28 of viral pneumonia brought on by chickenpox. Her name will still appear on the ballot, and she is
expected to defeat the Republican challenger, a right-wing state representative, Bob McDermott. The state will then hold
not one but two special elections to fill her seat.

On Nov. 30, voters will choose among 38 declared candidates -- 10 of them Democrats -- to serve the remaining five weeks
of Mrs. Mink's term. After wavering for two weeks, John Mink, Mrs. Mink's husband, declared his candidacy this week and
is thought likely to win a decisive sympathy vote. But he says he is not interested in serving a full term.

On Jan. 4, if Mrs. Mink wins on Nov. 5, another election will be held for the vacant seat in the 108th Congress. A half-dozen
Democrats have expressed interest in that race.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/19/us/2002-campaign-democrats-hawaii-democrats-reeling-after-scandals-death.html

She will out-live us all! This election cycle brought fourth people who had zero chances of being the nominee waste hundreds of millions of dollars. A few hundred mill to keep her chugging is a drop in the bucket for some of these idealist NWO Aholes. That and access to medical treatments and care the likes of which no common person will ever experience. Hell  she could have already died and the person we see is a body double with A+ plastic surgery nothing is off the table now.

Not that it matters, Roberts or maybe  Kav will conveniently vote with the Anti's when any big decisions that positively affect the 2A community make it to them.

The liberals will keep her going, somehow.

 
With robotics and speech synthesis, she'll be good for another hundred years.