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World's oldest living person dies at 116 in Ukraine
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| 16/ 12/ 2007
Posted on 12/16/2007 8:37:35 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: RDTF
Well, I guess it's all in the way you read the question?
Were we talking about the oldest person who was dead, or the person who lived the longest that was dead?
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posted on
12/16/2007 8:52:53 AM PST
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Just another Joe
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To: joshhiggins
LOL, all in the way you read the question.
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12/16/2007 8:53:31 AM PST
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Just another Joe
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To: Grzegorz 246
"undermined on the marital front."Isn't it funny how Russians can eat stone soup, survive drowning under the ice of the river after being shot and poisoned, get through the horrors of Stalingrad in WW2, and put up with Soviet Communism for 70 years...but the marital front scares the guvna (sp?) out of them.
To: 1rudeboy
Just in terms of background, does anyone have any data on how many of these Worlds Oldest Person-types actually die? Heart stops.
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posted on
12/16/2007 8:59:51 AM PST
by
submarinerswife
("If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
To: Just another Joe
dunno - all I know is 116 is way to long to live!
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posted on
12/16/2007 9:01:09 AM PST
by
RDTF
(Remember Pearl Harbor)
To: Jack Wilson
To: 1rudeboy
does anyone have any data on how many of these Worlds Oldest Person-types actually die? All of them.
To: Grzegorz 246
How can he be the oldest “living” person if he is dead?
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To: RDTF
dunno - all I know is 116 is way to long to live!I plan on 119 myself. Just so I can see the Tricentinnial.
You gotta set goals. ;^)
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12/16/2007 9:12:53 AM PST
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Just another Joe
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To: daler
So whos the oldest dead person?
Judging by this photo, it could be...
To: Grzegorz 246
"...and never used alcohol in large amounts." I spread out my 6 packs over a one hour period ... I never drink them all at once either.
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posted on
12/16/2007 9:22:31 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Just another Joe
The freaky thing reading about Calment in the late 90s was that she met Vincent Van Gogh.
That, and she made a reverse mortgage deal with some middle-aged guy when she was about 90 — she would get a monthly payment until she died, and he gets her condo after that. He died before she did. Has to be the worst investment ever since the value of the condo was paid in 10 years.
To: Grzegorz 246
World's oldest living person dies at 116 in UkraineAnd here I thought the "world's oldest living person" died about 6 months ago at age 114.
Makes me seriously question my math skills.
NOT!
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posted on
12/16/2007 9:43:53 AM PST
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Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Moonman62
Nestor, who worked as a shepherd in the village, used to say that he had lived to an old age because he had never been married and had not had his nervous system "undermined on the marital front."Not only simply a wise old man, a true world-class philosopher!
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posted on
12/16/2007 9:46:03 AM PST
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Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Grzegorz 246
MEMO TO SELF: Avoid becoming the world’s oldest living person, or you’ll die!
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posted on
12/16/2007 9:48:08 AM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: RDTF
so...then what exactly is the documented lifespan of Adam?The word "documented" is infinitely elastic. Dragons be there.
Don't go there.
For myself, I know what "documented" is, and no holy book on earth qualifies. Otherwise there would be no need to invent (or use) the word Faith.
Jorge Luis Borges, the noted Argentinian writer of "fantastic literature", including "made up" classic non-fiction, covers the whimsical nature of this topic quite well.
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posted on
12/16/2007 10:05:14 AM PST
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Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Grzegorz 246
The planet's oldest living person, Grigoriy Nestor, died at the age of 116
The second oldest person now refuses to walk across a street.........
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posted on
12/16/2007 10:08:16 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
To: Jack Wilson
They do seem to die soon after receiving that title, don’t they!
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posted on
12/16/2007 10:09:49 AM PST
by
bannie
To: submarinerswife
Heart stops.Wrong.
Current conventional common wisdom: smoking.
I made a curious discovery a number of years ago, perhaps 10 or so years past: in a discussion similar to this one there was a list of the modern 10 longest-lived persons, and their documented age.
All of them smoked most of their lives, with three of them smoking past age 100.
Ironically it occured during the "smoking" hysteria and the monumental penalty extracted from smokers in the U.S. via the tobacco companies.
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12/16/2007 10:12:15 AM PST
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Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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