Posted on 06/12/2013 6:32:24 AM PDT by Perdogg
Japan's Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospital early Wednesday morning, Kyodo News cited the local government as saying.
Mr Kimura, from Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture, was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person in December 2012 when a woman from the United States died at the age of 115.
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People from rural areas actually step back to an earlier time. My mom was raised in the dustbowl plains, before electrification. She is in her 80’s.
Her stories sound like Little House to me - the way they sat around the table at night, reading from the small stack of books by kerosene lamp. I think that is one reason older people love certain books - my mom still talks about works by Sir Walter Scott and poetry her dad used to read to them. Their house was very tiny 600 -sq ft- and they built it themselves, the whole family lived in it and no electricity. She remembers the “literary” and walking out at night without any light but from a lantern.
I was never there but can visualize it.
Wha??? Really??? My God, you know, I never thought of that. What a silly goose, I am. Thanks for setting me straight. ;>)
My son, now 22, enjoys talking about his ancestors and the changes each of them saw in their lives. It helps personalize history and talking about time spans in terms of personal lifetimes makes it real.
My oldest daughter, now 26, studied in Sweden in college. She took a side trip to Gdansk in Poland and visited the childhood home of her great grandfather. Her great great grandfather was an entrepreneur who started a battery company there in the 1880s. Gdansk used to be Danzig, Germany and is only a few miles from where WW II started. That really got her interested in our family history.
1/3 is due to genes
1/3 is due to environmental things (diet; living conditions, etc., etc.)
1/3 is just a matter of -- as good a term as any -- luck
His mom is taking the news very hard.
Helen Thomas isn’t included because she technically is classified as a fossil.
Wow, the guy’s almost as old as the stuff in my fridge.
Most of us, except of course those pesky ‘Millenials’, have spanned two centuries! WOW!
IBITHWD (In Before I Thought He WAS Dead!)
They need to stop jinxing these people. The poor souls get designated as the "world's oldest living person", and sure enough within months they drop dead!
Being born approx mid century its going to be real hard for me to attain the 3rd.
Being born approx mid century its going to be real hard for me to attain the 3rd.
I knew this guy wouldn’t survive the Obama years.
By the time they’re gone, the oldest person on earth will be 37.
Well I know between ObamaCare and what he did to my 401k I won’t be able approach this guys age.
Due to eroding values, we’re now referring to them as a 401(c)
:^)
One of my Grandmothers was born in 1895 in Scotland. She became a nurse to help with the wounded of WWI then going on over in Europe. When the Kaiser’s Zeppelins bombed London (1916-17) she no longer felt safe and emigrated to the USA.
She met my Grandfather in the shipyards of Philadelphia and soon had a passel of kidets to keep her busy. When we came along she would answer questions for hours at a time about her childhood and growing up in the Edwardian British Empire. She always wanted to go to India to see everything she had read about in Rudyard Kipling’s books.
We all stayed up late on July 21st, 1969 to see Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. All of a sudden my Grandmother started crying softly. I asked her if she was ok and she stated that she had “...lived too long, I saw the Wright Brothers plane fly in Le Mans France in 1908 and have now seen man fly to the moon” I didn’t understand until many years later what she meant. She passed peacefully in her sleep in 1980 after reading from her favorite author: R. F. Delderfield. I was overseas in the military at the time and unable to get back home. I still miss her and her sharp Gaelic tongue (and choice of words!) used whenever we got ourselves into trouble. :)
The oldest person is a Japanese woman, Misao Okama, born March 5, 1898. The oldest person living in the US is Jeralean Talley, born May 23, 1899. The oldest man in the US is James McCoubrey, born Sept. 13, 1901, in Newfoundland, who later immigrated to the US (apparently is a US citizen). The other two living people born in 1899 are Soledad Mexia, born Aug. 13, 1899, and Grace Jones, born Dec. 7, 1899.
I suspect #2 oldest. He had to motive to usurp the crown.
"Protected species status" and "historic preservation laws" do not apply those who live longer than 100 years.
You know, most of the people that die with heart disease and cancer are our elderly population, you know, and we all will probably die with something sooner or later.... But I'm saying that we are losing the people that's going to pay my Social Security and that bothers me.- Joycelyn Elders
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