WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

i found out about that guy watching an episode of weir's way - my gf got me the complete boxset on dvd for xmas.

episode focused on leadhills, lanarkshire. surprisingly, as part of the lowlands, the second highest village in scotland (neighboring wanlockhead the highest). also the birthplace of William Symington, who built the the Charlotte Dundas, which was the basis of later steam powered boats.

No change, but Kane Tanaka officially recognised as oldest living person by Guinness World Records.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/09/japanese-woman-116-named-worlds-oldest-living-person

Keeping an eye on koogs's list of the top ten oldest living people at the start of 2019, Shimoe Akiyama also died at the end of January at age 115 years, 255 days, making two of that ten now gone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-47744752

Mr Weighton said the most common question he was asked was about the secret of his longevity.

But his only advice on the matter was "to avoid dying", he said.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/456ae75d-c218-4721-9847-0c25bf260e9b

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1

The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, which has more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by low per capita incomes and a short life expectancy. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.

Kane Tanaka turned 119 on Sunday. Not that long now for her to pass Sarah Knauss's 119 years 97 days, but it still feels such a massive stretch to match Jeanne Calment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/worlds-oldest-person-celebrates-119th-birthday-in-japan-nursing-home

^ RIP

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile_Randon : 118

2019

1 Kane Tanaka 116 years, 5 days Japan
2 Maria Giuseppa Robucci 115 years, 293 days Italy
3 Shimoe Akiyama 115 years, 233 days Japan
4 Lucile Randon 114 years, 330 days France
5 Shin Matsushita 114 years, 283 days Japan
6 Maria Vikentyevna Kononovich 114 years, 225 days Belarus
7 Lessie Brown 114 years, 107 days United States
8 Maggie Kidd 114 years, 30 days United States
9 Jeanne Bot 113 years, 358 days France
10 Shigeyo Nakachi 113 years, 340 days Japan

today

1 Lucile Randon 118 years, 73 days France
2 Tekla Juniewicz 115 years, 319 days Poland
3 María Brañas Morera 115 years, 52 days Spain
4 Casilda Ramona Benegas de Gallego 115 years, 17 days Argentina
5 Fusa Tatsumi 115 years, 0 days Japan
6 Anonymous of Hyōgo 114 years, 361 days Japan
7 Sofia Rojas 114 years, 255 days Colombia
8 Bessie Hendricks 114 years, 169 days United States
9 Mila Mangold 114 years, 162 days United States
10 Irene Dunham 114 years, 130 days United States

she's the only one from 2019 top 10 who is still alive. also, happy birthday Fusa!

On 16 January 2021, Randon tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak at her retirement home in Toulon that saw 81 out of the 88 residents there infected with the disease. Randon did not have any symptoms and on 8 February, just days before her 117th birthday, it was reported that she had recovered, making her the oldest confirmed person to have both been infected with, and survived, the virus.

Aw, sad about Kane Tanaka, she seemed cool.

She did just surpass Sarah Knauss in the end, so was the second oldest person ever to have lived.

Not good enough.

where is jeff i need his scorn

I think I've softened in my old age.

However when I myself become the world's oldest person, I'm going to come to this thread and scorn myself.

i'm satisfied enough with having been the world's youngest person

nun had a good run

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/centenarian-nun-thought-worlds-oldest-person-dies-118-rcna66227

I appreciate ciderpress’ perspective on this

Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944...

...when she was FORTY.

living really long doesn't seem quite as impressive a trick since the last ones born in the 19th century died off.

Being the world's oldest person almost seems like a bit of a poison chalice at this point

The Curse of Being the World's Oldest Person - how many of them are still alive, eh?

Ashwatthama, the superhero of the Mahabharatha, is said to be over 6,000 years old and still alive.[citation needed]

Myrtle Dorsey, born in 1885, was the oldest person on Jan. 1, 2000.

Sarah Knauss, born in 1880, was the oldest person before Dorsey, but died on Dec. 30, 1999!

Either way, I'm never going to see any tri-century folk again.

Anna Eliza Williams was born in 1873, 100 years before me, and died in 1987.

2087 is a very tall order on my end.

Hey, let's not be negative here, 2087 here you come!

I'd have to get through 2077 first with all of its glitches.

Old poepl!

it always blows my mind that in one's lifetime you could go from not having penicillin to being able to order it from a tiny electronic device and have someone else drive it to your house.

my great grandmother lived to be 100 - she was just always old the whole time I knew her (about 20 years) and pictures of her from the 70's were old too - it's like after 68 you are just OLD and if you keep living you are just PERMA_OLD

sounds bad

i'm cool w/ getting to 55

i can't drive etc

pictures of her from the 70's were old

Well hell, pictures of me from the 70s are now old too!

my grandma looks old in pictures from the 70s, even though she was only in her 50s. it's the wrinkles and the perm, nobody born after 1930 ever had a perm like that.

my great-grandmother was born in 1889 and died in the early 90s.. but she was still writing me mostly legible letters right to the end

Oh and in third grade, my afterschool babysitter's husband was a WWI vet - the only one I've ever met (that I know of)

I'll check the obituaries sometimes and see some suave tan mfer wearing a polo shirt and pastel jacket from 1984. I'll think, how can this guy have been 85 years old? Picture should be in black-and-white with him wearing a straw hat or something?

Then I'll realize that he was in his mid-40s 40 years ago, and think, damn, I remember when old people were much older.

I remember when people my age looked like Wilford Brimley and wore tweed hats

Lol

Now those assholes are in their mid-30s, drinking IPAs at the boutique bowling alley.

"shoes? we aren't actually HERE to bowl. it's about the ambience, the rich history of bowling."

it's like after 68 you are just OLD

great! so, I have like a whole ten months of being 68 before OLD AGE hits?

I don't think crown green bowling is quite as popular with hipsters in their mid 30's in the UK. And the oldies that were into it back in the day wouldn't drink no fancy overpriced IPA. I remember going into a smoky wmc as a kid with a friend + his dad, and they were drinking something they all called Blue, can't remember what brand it was. It was very weak and cheap bitter that the landlord probably also watered down for good measure I think, because I couldn't even get pissed on it when I was 11 yrs old. There is the secret to longevity - as long as you don't chainsmoke rollups as well as drinking 15 pints of Blue a day!

somewhere in the early to mid '10s, around here hookah smoking just like, took off. I had several friends inviting me to hookah bars, and I haaaated it but I loved my friends enough that I did it once or twice.

I think it died down because a lot of the people that I knew that were into it apparently mistakenly thought it was safer than cigarette smoking. the hookah bars in town are like ghost towns now.

Not being a man is one of the secrets to longevity.

I'd wager there won't be many future oldest people in the world that huff on pipes in bars! Although that previous title holder, the French woman who recollected meeting Van Gogh, had a one cigarette a day habit up to a hundred iirc