WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

oh well.

Many of them were married at one point though, they just are so old they outlived their husbands but then were told old to snag another.

Misao Okawa turns 117

http://i.imgur.com/FurqRJO.jpg

that's an impressive age — she's the 5th oldest person of all time, the oldest Japanese person of all time, and the first person to reach age 117 since the 1990s.

Not aware of any secret. Respectable oldest person.

she was in her 90s when i was born

Asked for the secret of her longevity, she joked, "I wonder about that too!"

Born on 5th March 1898 in Tenma, she has previously said the key to a long life is eating sushi and getting at least eight hours sleep a night.

^hoping this is reasonable by Jeff's standards

those two things seem potentially true, unlike most of the b.s. supercentenarians say on that topic. i think they don't want people to live as long as them, and bump them off the list, so they give misleading advice

sounds great tbh xp

Alexander Imich (who was briefly the world's oldest man) had an extremely complicated 'secret':

http://www.lef.org/magazine/2008/10/Alexander-Imich/Page-01

i.e. calorie restriction, healthy diet, exercise, a happy marriage, a goal-oriented life, curiosity, optimism, good genes, a steady routine, and the following supplements:

vitamins: A, C, D, E, B1, B2, B6, and B12; minerals: calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, and chromium; and supplements: inositol, ginger, phosphatidylcholine, bromelain, milk thistle seed extract, grape seed extract, flaxseed lignan, ellagic acid, bilberry extract, olive leaf extract, apple polyphenol, bromelain, lutein, panthetine, lycopene, sulforaphane, resveratrol, zeaxanthin, sunflower seeds, coenzyme Q10, garlic, mangosteen, pomegranate, noni complex, ashwagandha, hyaluronic acid, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, seaweed vegetable complex, and turmeric extract

of all the oldest people I've read about, he's the only one who credited his old age to modern life extension techniques. most supercentenarians lead healthy but more-or-less unremarkable lifestyles.

Misao and her older sister

http://i.imgur.com/aQC2QBT.jpg

in 1900.

And whoa, here she is in 1972.

http://i.imgur.com/1abosjf.jpg

Maybe I made that last one up.

Wow, only five 19th century kids left:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people#Ten_verified_oldest_people_living

just read on wiki that the woman who lived second-longest in history, sarah knauss, was born in 1880 and died on 30 december 1999. what a pisser to miss out on living across three centuries by a single day :(

sad that her age is melting her

I pointed that out maybe in this very thread xp but then NV got all smartass about 2001 being the millennial year

I still say it was 2000.

I didn't turn 1 until a year after I was born, but I was definitely alive and kicking the 365 days before then.

sleeping a lot and eating a lot of sushi sounds like a good life

It is. Trust me.

she probably has access to much better sushi than i do, being japanese and all

personally I would rather enjoy some sake as well and live half a century lesser than her, but each to their own.

She doesn't look a day over 116

by contrast, Jeralean Talley, the world's third oldest person, looks about 80:

http://i.imgur.com/6sLs7cS.jpg

it does seem like a lot of the "world's oldest people" are african-american women. i wonder why that is.

113-year-old people who have figured out how to live:

http://i.imgur.com/nECTnLb.jpg

it does seem like a lot of the "world's oldest people" are african-american women. i wonder why that is.

the mortality rate for African-Americans past the age of 80 actually increases more slowly than the mortality rate for white Americans in the same age range, and black people actually have a lower mortality rate than white people at extreme old ages (110+). there's no clear reason why, but this is an interesting read.

"actually"

RIP Misao Okawa :(

her successor is presumably 116-year-old African-American woman Gertrude Weaver, whose exact birthdate is hotly contested (it could be either April or July 1898).

Eat and sleep. Got it, oldest person.

I can't wait to bump this thread when I'm the oldest person.

I think you might have to. Wait, that is.

Birth registration in the United States was not compulsory until 1933.

So Americans have 30 more years of this "paperwork? what paperwork?" b.s. to go through every time.

New oldest person: http://time.com/3768338/worlds-oldest-person-gertrude-weaver-misao-okawa/

Secret for this oldest person, kindness. wtf stupid.

Welp….

http://www.thv11.com/story/news/2015/04/06/worlds-oldest-woman-dies-at-116/25369525/

Her granddaughter is 79.

media attention can be dangerous when you're that old. she died of pneumonia, so it's possible that she caught something from a reporter or some other visitor last week. but at least she had a little bit of time to appreciate her position.

Hopefully the media won't be so intrusive in Jeralean Talley's case, although she seems to be in much better shape:

http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/wayne-county/inksters-jeralean-talley-is-now-the-oldest-verified-person-in-the-world

The two oldest people in the world during the past week have both been African American women - one living in rural Arkansas and the other in metro Detroit.

These ladies are taking "Get Tough or Die" to an incredible extreme.

Venture Capitalist Promises http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhedgecock/2015/04/21/venture-capitalist-promises-1m-to-first-person-to-reach-123rd-birthday/M To First Person To Reach 123rd Birthday

this is mainly of interest to fraudsters: shady '140-year-old' goatherds will be climbing down from the Caucasus by the hundreds to claim their prize money, whereas it's doubtful that any actual (super)centenarians will be moved to break the world record because they're holding out for a cash prize that they'll be too old to properly enjoy. of the thousands of people who have reached the age of 110, only one has ever made it past 120, so survival at that age is most likely a matter of genetics rather than lifestyle or 'motivation'. there's a good chance that nobody will reach age 123 within that Moldovan billionaire's lifetime, which means he can raise awareness about lifespan extension without having to worry about paying out the prize money. good on him, I guess.

in other relevant news, the world's oldest person turned 116 today. unsurprisingly, she doesn't cite 'living in Inkster, Michigan' as her secret to a long life.

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well that was short-lived

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-keeps-dying/

it's almost like being the world's oldest person is some kind of death sentence

You know, for like a second maybe, they

were also the world's youngest person.

I'll be telling that joke all the time in 2093.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/06/18/jeralean-talley-dead-oldest-woman/28923509/

welp, RIP Jeralean Talley

the 19th century is soon to depart the living human world

for some reason I dread that day; it is terribly irrational

I feel like I'll lose a lot of my interest in these records once the last 1800er dies, even though 'last World War I veteran' and 'last person born before Kitty Hawk' are arguably more meaningful milestones than last surviving person of the century (and it's not like either of the two oldest women have any memories at all of that era)

the new world's oldest person is 115-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, who has had an interesting life:

Susannah Mushatt was born on July 6, 1899 in Lowndes County, Alabama. Her parents were sharecroppers who farmed the same land as her grandparents (one an ex-slave). As a young woman, she worked in the fields, and was determined to escape that hard existence. On March 4, 1922, she graduated from the Calhoun Boarding High School and the graduation roster recognized her for studying 'Negro Music in France'. After graduation, she wanted to become a teacher and was accepted to Tuskegee Institute's Teacher's Program. Her parents couldn't afford tuition, so in 1923, she moved to New York during the early stages of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1928, she married Henry Jones. She divorced him five years later, saying she 'didn't know what became of him,' and she had no children.

she and Emma Morano (born in Italy in 1899) are the last two 1800ers standing. Susannah is somewhat frail, but Emma still lives independently in her apartment and eats a lot of eggs. interestingly, she also got divorced/separated at a young age and never remarried, which was almost unheard of in Italy at the time.

so eggs?