Judging by this photo, it could be...
Posted on 12/16/2007 8:37:35 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
LVOV, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - The planet's oldest living person, Grigoriy Nestor, died at the age of 116 in the Lvov Region in western Ukraine on Sunday.
According to church documents and his passport, Nestor was born on March 15, 1891.
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."
Nestor, who loved Ukrainian, Russian, German and Polish songs as he learnt them after living through the first and second world wars in his west Ukrainian village, actually never fell ill, never took any medicines and never used alcohol in large amounts.
According to Guinness World Records, today the world's oldest living person is 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico who assumed this title after Elizabeth Bolden, an African American woman, died at the age of 116 years and 118 days in 2006.
Were we talking about the oldest person who was dead, or the person who lived the longest that was dead?
LOL, all in the way you read the question.
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.
Heart stops.
dunno - all I know is 116 is way to long to live!
classic
All of them.
How can he be the oldest “living” person if he is dead?
I plan on 119 myself. Just so I can see the Tricentinnial.
You gotta set goals. ;^)
I spread out my 6 packs over a one hour period ... I never drink them all at once either.
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.
And 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!
Not only simply a wise old man, a true world-class philosopher!
MEMO TO SELF: Avoid becoming the world’s oldest living person, or you’ll die!
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.
The second oldest person now refuses to walk across a street.........
They do seem to die soon after receiving that title, don’t they!
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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