Oldest living person ever at 128 wishes she had died young and says her longevity is a punishment

A woman purported to be the oldest living person ever at 128 says she hasn't lived a single happy day in her life and her longevity is "a punishment".

But she has bluntly said her longevity "was God's will" and she "did nothing to make it happen".

While some people chalk it up to a healthy or active lifestyle, "tired" Koku said: "I have no idea how I lived until now."

Due to turn 129 in two weeks, she added: “I have not had a single happy day in my life."

The claim was made by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and is based on Koku's internal passport which shows her date of birth as 1 June 1889.

If correct, Koku - who shuns meat and loathes soups, but loves fermented milk - was already 27 when the last tsar, Nicholas II, was forced to abdicate in March 1917. She was 55 when the Second World War ended in 1945, and 102 when the Soviet Union collapsed a generation ago in 1991.

People are taking her “never a happy day” too literal. I’m sure she has happy moments, but being born in 1889 in rural Russia would not have provided her much opportunity in her life. I”m sure she had a very hard life. It was a very different world that people in today’s world of comforts (smartphones, computers, Uber, etc) in the USA have no idea about.

The little lady makes me keiffer, yogurt and kombucha. Does her own ginger brew. And of course fermented pickles and kraut.

I draw the line at kimchee. That stuff is evil. I’d rather stick my head in a road killed baked and bloated cow than smell kimchee.

On another note, her dandelion wine this year was excellent.

Doesn't have to be yak milk though. Any cultured/fermented milk product. I typically drink Kefir every morning. I just buy it at Sprouts but I am actually looking to buy the grains and making it myself for the first time today.

The bottled Kefir has something like 12-15 live bacteria strains. Unlike yogurts, they will actually re-colonize in your digestional tract.

pneumonia used to be called the blessing of the aged, but nowadays, we can't let people just die naturally...we have to keep everyone alive even if their bodies do not work let alone their minds...

The ones who called pneumonia the “blessing of the aged” obviously have never suffered with a serious case of pneumonia. I have been to lots of calls where people were dying and did die of pneumonia... it is a terrible way to go.

I do agree with you about not letting people die natural deaths. One time I was on a CPR call on a poor little old lady, after the paramedics came and gave her shocks and a dose of drugs her heart started beating again. After the call the other guys were quite happy about the “save”. Every rib in that poor fragile, brittle little old lady's chest had been broken by CPR. I can't imagine the amount of pain that must have caused her if she ever actually regained consciousness before she died again in the hospital. I had to disagree with my coworkers about the actual “good” that our efforts had accomplished.

But I have to disagree with taking seriously this little old lady's statement that she had never had a happy day in her life. It most likely has less to do with her “hard life” and “terrible things” than just being something she is now saying to get sympathy and attention. I say this after years of experience working with elderly folks. As I said in my previous post there is often competition with little old ladies especially, over who suffered the most. The completion often escalates to comical proportions.

Attitude is so important. Whatever tragedies happened to this woman, to never have a happy day, has to be a choice that she’s making.

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Under Uncle Joe, a lot of Russian people never had a happy day in their life. Joe made their choices for them ... live ... die ... visit the Siberian heaven .. work in plutonium processing plans in paper suits and handle the material bare handed ... you get the idea.

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