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Oldest living person ever at 128 wishes she had died young and says her longevity is a punishment
Mirror ^ | 16 May 2018 | Will Stewart

Posted on 05/16/2018 7:46:03 AM PDT by Magnatron

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To: Magnatron

Every day there is another “oldest person alive” that is older than yesterday’s oldest person.

“Oldest person dies at 117” then a week later “Oldest person dies at 120”

WTF ?


41 posted on 05/16/2018 8:50:06 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Architect of Avalon

Genesis 6:3


42 posted on 05/16/2018 8:54:21 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Jeff Chandler

Doesn’t look a day over 95...


43 posted on 05/16/2018 8:58:54 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Magnatron
"I have not had a single happy day in my life."

I have spoken to many Russians who have said things like this. "Vanity, vanity, says the preacher...". "In this world you will have tribulation...". If she is a believer in Jesus Christ, perhaps she is counting on happiness in the next life?
44 posted on 05/16/2018 9:02:49 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ArtDodger
So, not only are some people receiving benefits of several people, they are passing themselves off as older than they are. Behemoths like the Social Security Administration doesn’t usually catch them. In summation: When someone says they are of a great age, I will believe it when someone, a dentist or the like, can confirm it.

It is not just gypsies that perpetuate this type of fraud. The lady who owned the “problem” house across the street died several years ago. Her career criminal son kept collecting the reverse mortgage, social security benefits, and the property tax exemption and let his criminal friends move in. They were cooking meth, selling drugs, selling stolen goods... doing all sorts of other bad stuff.

The neighbors and I were in repeated contact with the police and code enforcement, who did nothing for years. The power was cut-off at the pole after repeated meter jumpering to steal electricity, but that was about it, and the criminals just started running a loud generator day and night.

The city and utilities departments kept fining the “owner” but not actually filing liens against the property since it was technically owned by HUD. HUD of course refused to do anything either. One of the city officials kept referring to the head criminal as the “owner's son”. I sent him an email with a copy of Edna's obituary and told him that the “owner's son” had no intention of ever paying fines they were assessing to his mother.

Somehow this finally started the wheels turning and the house went on the market shortly afterward. But if this were a death in a gypsie or other close knit ethnic group they most likely would have kept her death from being recorded and would still be collecting all of the benefits.

45 posted on 05/16/2018 9:04:24 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Magnatron

Dear God, please grant her a few happy days on Earth and a happy eternity.


46 posted on 05/16/2018 9:04:37 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: DannyTN; windcliff; stylecouncilor; I Drive Too Fast

“Happiness is a moral obligation”...Prager ping.


47 posted on 05/16/2018 9:05:21 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Magnatron

Fermented milk is KEIFER and i admonish all to get making your own KOMBUCHA, which also is fermented.

Also sometimes eat kimchee.


48 posted on 05/16/2018 9:07:30 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Jan_Sobieski

As per the article, she was brought up Muslim.

Anybody besides me read the article?


49 posted on 05/16/2018 9:09:10 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Magnatron

Did she make John Coffee(”Like the drink.”) ride the Lightning? “Sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.”


50 posted on 05/16/2018 9:14:35 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: Magnatron

Communism is not about making people happy, it is about seizing and concentrating power.

The rest is just cover story.


51 posted on 05/16/2018 9:16:55 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Cold Heart

That would explain it...


52 posted on 05/16/2018 9:19:09 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
“I have not had a single happy day in my life.”

This is just not a credible statement. It reminds me of my long dead Norwegian Grandmother. She would fight furiously with the Swedes in the retirement center over who had the most miserable life. They were nearly all affluent but they each claimed to have suffered the most. Anyone who had been through some really bad stuff was shunned from the group. It was quite amusing to observe.

Basically everyone has happy and sad days in their lives regardless of their surroundings and circumstances. And in fact, a simpler life style is typically more conducive to happiness.

Tell me this old lady wasn't happy when a flower or vegetable from seeds she planted came popping through the dirt. Or tell me she wasn't happy when her goat gave birth if she didn't have children of her own, or she got a new kitten or chicken, or pig. You just cannot take this type of statement seriously.

53 posted on 05/16/2018 9:19:25 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: ArtDodger

Almost all the cases of someone over 120 are cases of mistaken identity (parent or grandparent with the same name), or identity fraud.


54 posted on 05/16/2018 9:22:53 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Jeff Chandler; Lazamataz

I dunno. She don’t look a day over 106.


55 posted on 05/16/2018 9:23:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: joesbucks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah


56 posted on 05/16/2018 9:24:34 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Cold Heart

Well no wonder she was unhappy.


57 posted on 05/16/2018 9:35:16 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: CommerceComet

“They have either discovered the oldest person in the world or the longest-running pension fraud.”

I remember either a yogurt or cereal commercial some years ago featuring some old people from a part of the Soviet Union. Supposedly the average age was around 100 and people in the area lived well beyond 110 years.

A few years later the truth was known.
No one in those remote villages kept records.
Births and deaths were only recorded in family bibles or by the family patriarch/matriarch.
Since bibles were banned in the USSR there was no way to prove those people’s ages
Most of them lied in order to get their Soviet pension.
The people in the commercial were in their 60’s-70’s.


58 posted on 05/16/2018 9:38:27 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Come And Take It!.....The Rats of Tobruk to Erwin Rommel, 1941)
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To: riri

huh, I’ll have to give it a try.


59 posted on 05/16/2018 9:40:56 AM PDT by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: fireman15
I think her definition of not being happy has more to do with her having a hard hard life...lots of terrible things going on around her, her living a hard scrabble life, and her losing her many children thru the yrs...

people seem to think getting old is easy....its not...

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...

and this lady....as she says, she doesn't know why she is still alive but that God is deeming it so....

old people get to an age and a condition where they wonder "why can't I just die"....and each day they wake up....

60 posted on 05/16/2018 9:49:10 AM PDT by cherry
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