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Oldest Person in the World dies
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Yeah, but I bet you could come up with a really cool avatar and sig.
Maybe this for both:
"Before my last birthday, dirt was older than me."
Apparently Maria Gomes Valentim was the oldest person in the world being 47 days older than Besse Cooper, however she passed away yesterday giving the title to Besse Cooper.
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It seems minding your own business is the key to long life.
You can watch Besse climb the list of oldest people ever here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009089/Maria-Lucimar-Pereira-120-year-old-woman-discovered-Brazil-Amazon-state-Acre.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Looks like she just lost the title again...
Looks like she just lost the title again...
There's you go. Wikipedia has proof that there is one physical activity that female totally dominate males in - living long.
That's an old saw.
The longer you live, the longer you will live.
Sounds like a joke, but check the stats.
Well, the odds in your favour are not good, I have met some very sharp people above 80.
Unfortunately for you, and me, they are usually women.
My great grand mother is miserable in her "home". It also seems the human body usually deteriorates around 80 pretty quickly. I just assume to go into my garage and grab the keys to the fastest car I have... Then drive it off a bridge at an insane speed. I just don't intend having someone change my diapers or put the burden of paying for the home on family.
A reasonable position to hold.
Unfortunately, Society does not agree. They own your ass, not you. Attempting suicide is against "the law". If you succeed, well, you gave them the finger.
My suggestion would be to go to Oregon, or another state that allows assisted suicide, and do it right.
No, but I can guess that, in the main, they died alone.
Families can be selfish, when a loved one nears the End of Life stage.
They don't want anything to change, but it has to, and it will.
They should support their senior, and make the passage as easy as possible for him/her.
In the cases they followed in How to Die in Oregon their family was always beside them.
Scientific American had an article years ago that there is currently an upper limit to longevity determined by the structure of DNA, and it's just not possible to live longer than about 120 years. Sure, life expectancy has risen, but the oldest people 1,000 years ago are the same age as they are today, about 120. Has to do with replication and the strands at the end of the DNA molecule. They lose a bit each cycle until the "live" code is hit, then things start to happen like loss of skin tone, hearing, all those age-related issues.
Now if they can figure a way to repair those ends it might be possible, but they said they currently have no idea how that is even remotely possible.
Moral: Enjoy what you have because you won't be around all that long.
My brother used to say that if caught and convicted, you will be sentenced to life.
Let's hear it for telomere research!
I know one of the researchers, who has been working on these "DNA ends" for several years. My favorite analogy is that telomeres are like aglets, the little plastic tips on shoelaces.
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Dead
MrMacMan said:
Indeed what do you call the formerly oldest person in the world...
Dead
