Not again! World's oldest person - dead!

[Interesting Post]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/162959/thumbs/s-KAMA-CHINEN-large.jpg

TOKYO — The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman on the southern island of Okinawa, has died a week before her 115th birthday, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Kama Chinen, who witnessed three centuries, died Sunday, according to Kaoru Shijima, a spokeswoman at her care facility.

Petite and gray-haired, Chinen spent her final years at a care center in Nanjo on southeastern Okinawa. She was born on May 10, 1895, according to the Gerontology Research Group , which tracks individuals of extremely old age.

Her family guarded her privacy closely, and details regarding her death were not released to the press – many Japanese newspapers didn't even give her name.

Chinen became the world's oldest known person when Gertrude Baines died in a Los Angeles hospital at age 115 in September.

The oldest human is now 114-year-old Eugenie Blanchard, a French woman born on Feb. 16, 1896, according to the research group. The group has validated 75 "supercentenarians" worldwide who are at least 110 years old, according to its website.

Japan has a high percentage of the world's centenarians, many of whom are from the southern Okinawa region.

There were more than 40,000 Japanese over 100 years old when the government released its annual report in September. Over 86 percent of them were women.

By 2050, Japan's centenarian population is expected to reach nearly 1 million, according to U.N. projections.

Be afraid Eugenie Blanchard, be very afraid.

[Mick Fan]

The last line is what struck me. One million people over 100 years old. Some entrepreneur needs to start a line of 100th birthday cards in Japanese.

And Williard Scott would need a whole hour for the 100th birthdays on the Today Show.

[The Nuge]

Was this another case of an eel in the rectum?

[FourKicks]

the article doesn't say how she died. do they suspect foul play?

[Interesting Post]

She only had a week to go before her 115th birthday, so there might be foul play. I'd start by interviewing the other 114 year olds...

[vividox]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess she died from old age...

[FormLetter]

75 supercentenarians created or saved

[dlwktb]

How long until there are no living people who were born in the 19th century?

[dlwktb]

And then how long until there are no living people who were born before the Cubs last won the world series?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Dismal Science]

the article doesn't say how she died. do they suspect foul play?

:lol:

[Samir]

She only had a week to go before her 115th birthday, so there might be foul play. I'd start by interviewing the other 114 year olds...

There was an episode of Monk(Mr. Monk and the Old, Old Man) about something like this. The old man was killed before his 110th (or was it 105th) birthday to hide what the killer has done in the past.

[Guerilla poster]

Okinawa has alot of old people. heard it is the diet. Or maybe the US military has secrets.

[Quasi]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess she died from old age...

Officially no one dies of old age anymore (at least that's not a valid cause of death on death certificates anymore).

[vividox]

Officially no one dies of old age anymore (at least that's not a valid cause of death on death certificates anymore).

Is it more correct to say their organs failed because they were 115 years old?

[Bobby Digital]

It's ok she was old anyway.

[Wolverine]

Is it more correct to say their organs failed because they were 115 years old?

What about their pianos?

[vividox]

What about their pianos?

Or harpsichords?

[jalapeno29]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess she died from old age...

a likely story.

[Quasi]

Is it more correct to say their organs failed because they were 115 years old?

I was just nitpicking. Everyone knows what you mean when you say "died of old age". I just thought it was interesting when I recently heard a trivia question about when the last person officially died of old age. I forget the answer but remembered that "old age" can't be used as the cause of death anymore. Maybe that's just in the U.S. though.

[SamTheEagle]

How about cause of death was "about damned time"?

[Joe Blow]

My wife's great grandmother is 101 and still gets around perfectly fine. She may be able to make it this far.

[FormLetter]

Is she hot?

[Patience]

My wife's great grandmother is 101 and still gets around perfectly fine. She may be able to make it this far.

perfectly? I find that hard to believe

[ditkaworshipper]

And then how long until there are no living people who were born before the Cubs last won the world series?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'll set the over/under at 17 years...d00sh. It sounds like an interesting prop bet though.

[Patience]

I'll set the over/under at 17 years...d00sh. It sounds like an interesting prop bet though.

so you are basically stating you don't believe the cubs will win the WS withing the next 17 years?

[Rockhound]

There's a scene in the otherwise forgetable movie Splinterheads, where this old guy's family gets together for a big party, because they are getting the news that the current oldest person, who's been on life support and has had the plug pulled, has finally kicked the bucket making him the new oldest person.

They put him in a sideshow.

[Joe Blow]

perfectly? I find that hard to believe

I could take her in a foot race but my mother couldn't. Heck, I don't think my father could either.

[Gonzo]

i'm starting to suspect there is some correlation between old age and death

[ElDucky]

She would have been the next Hitler.

[Mr. Grim]

if you live that long, how many sex-less years is that. Seems unimaginable. I want to die on my 70th birthday between the legs of a 20 year old hottie with large breasts. I will have lived a full life by then.

[ADoubleDot]

I was just nitpicking. Everyone knows what you mean when you say "died of old age". I just thought it was interesting when I recently heard a trivia question about when the last person officially died of old age. I forget the answer but remembered that "old age" can't be used as the cause of death anymore. Maybe that's just in the U.S. though.

The answer to the question posed by this symposium
title is easy to give. Since 1951, no one
in the United States has died of “old age” because
“old age” was cured in that year.

The cure resulted from a Public Health Conference
on Records and Statistics in which all state and
federal agencies were ordered to adopt a standard
list of 130 contributing and underlying causes
of death.1 In 1951, the list deleted a cause of
death attributed to “old age.”

Thus, with a single stroke of a typewriter key, old
age was cured as a cause of death in this country.
Because death certificates are legal documents,
you should be advised that should you wish to die
of old age it is illegal in this country. It is also not
legally possible for you to die of a broken heart
nor are you allowed to die laughing. However, if
you insist on dying of old age, there are a few
foreign countries in which you can legally do so.

http://www.ilcusa.org/media/pdfs/diedofoldage.pdf

[Incredible Hulctuary]

Is it more correct to say their organs failed because they were 115 years old?
Sort of. They figure out which organ(s) failed, along with any life-threatening diseases they can identify from the body or pre-death diagnoses, and list the specified organ failures and/or diseases. If they can't identify the condition(s), they'll list the cause of death as "undetermined."

[ElDucky]

They may say she died of a burst left ventricle, but I know she died of a broken heart.

[Ah Leah]

...The cure resulted from a Public Health Conference
on Records and Statistics in which all state and
federal agencies were ordered to adopt a standard
list of 130 contributing and underlying causes
of death.1 In 1951, the list deleted a cause of
death attributed to “old age.”...
I wonder if Death by Eel in Rectum (http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=192230) is one of the 130.

...Thus, with a single stroke of a typewriter key, old
age was cured as a cause of death in this country....
Was there a "delete row" key on typewriters in 1951?

[Browncoat]

The world’s oldest living person, aged 114, passed away. The cause of death — you guessed it — a knife fight.

.

[tommie frazier]

what is the longest reign a world's oldest person has ever had? anyone know?

[The Arbitrary]

How about cause of death was "about damned time"?

Boredom?

If there was foul play, I'd imagine the culprit would have to be one hell of a procratinator.

[Patience]

what is the longest reign a world's oldest person has ever had? anyone know?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_oldest_person


Jeanne Calment 6 years, 171 days for women
Shigechiyo Izumi 9 years 97 days for men

[FourKicks]

so tragic when a life is cut short.

[Interesting Post]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_oldest_person


Jeanne Calment 6 years, 171 days for women
Shigechiyo Izumi 9 years 97 days for men

That's longer than I would have expected.

[Abused Student]

Okinawa has alot of old people. heard it is the diet. Or maybe the US military has secrets.

So being nuked extends your life? Hmmm.

Is she rich?

IFYP

[Guerilla poster]

So being nuked extends your life? Hmmm.



IFYP


I am not aware Okinawa was nuked but essentially it is one big US military base.

[Patience]

That's longer than I would have expected.

actually he was longest living person for 9 years, longest living male 11 years

keep in mind they were the two longest living people ever

[Abused Student]

I am not aware Okinawa was nuked but essentially it is one big US military base.

:shrug: Yeah, well, it has been a long couple days.

And to save myself, they did film Karate Kid 2 (or 3) there.

[ElDucky]

That's longer than I would have expected.

TWSS

[dlwktb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_oldest_person


Jeanne Calment 6 years, 171 days for women
Shigechiyo Izumi 9 years 97 days for men

Jeanne Calment was 122. But wait! My mortality tables only go to 121!!! I didn't think it was possible to live past the mortality tables! My world is crumbling around me.

[ElDucky]

Jeanne Calment was 122. But wait! My mortality tables only go to 121!!! I didn't think it was possible to live past the mortality tables! My world is crumbling around me.

You didn't pay her out at 100?

[Pseudolus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10809128

He was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo - but when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered mummified skeletal remains lying in his bed.

Mr Kato may have been dead for 30 years according to Japanese authorities.

They grew suspicious when they went to honour Mr Kato at his address in Adachi ward, but his granddaughter told them he "doesn't want to see anybody".

Police are now investigating the family on possible fraud charges.

[...]

(via Marginal Rev.)

[dlwktb]

That's messed up.

[Loner]

My friend's dad works for Social Securit y in bum**** MO. Gets a lot of cases of kids stuffing mom or dad's corpse in the attic and collecting their SS checks.

[dlwktb]

My friend's dad works for Social Securit y in bum**** MO. Gets a lot of cases of kids stuffing mom or dad's corpse in the attic and collecting their SS checks.

What is a lot? 1 a week, or like 1 a quarter?

[Patience]

What is a lot? 1 a week, or like 1 a quarter?

actually, most of the cases I hear about are until someone realizes. Though I am sure there might be a lot more where the person gets nervous and finally pronounces Grandpa is dead before something happens

[limabeanactuary]

Reminds me of that story in NY a while back of the guys with the dead guy, trying to cash a SocSec check or something at the bank....

When most people get the money via direct transfer into account, and people know the PIN, etc., to get money out of account.... yeah, will be a lot easier to continue the scam. Gotta keep the body hidden somehow, though.

[Patience]

Reminds me of that story in NY a while back of the guys with the dead guy, trying to cash a SocSec check or something at the bank....

When most people get the money via direct transfer into account, and people know the PIN, etc., to get money out of account.... yeah, will be a lot easier to continue the scam. Gotta keep the body hidden somehow, though.

yeah, they were wheeling him around Weekend At Bernies style

[Incredible Hulctuary]

One cool thing about being the world's oldest living person is that once you get there, you're guaranteed to hold that title for the rest of your life.

[dlwktb]

actually, most of the cases I hear about are until someone realizes. Though I am sure there might be a lot more where the person gets nervous and finally pronounces Grandpa is dead before something happens

No, I meant how many cases does he see on average, not how long are they hiding them. He said his dad sees "a lot," I'm just wondering how prevalent it has to be to be "a lot."

[Patience]

No, I meant how many cases does he see on average, not how long are they hiding them. He said his dad sees "a lot," I'm just wondering how prevalent it has to be to be "a lot."

misread - saw 1 week, 1 quarter - missed the "a"s

[Gonzo]

Reminds me of that story in NY a while back of the guys with the dead guy, trying to cash a SocSec check or something at the bank....

When most people get the money via direct transfer into account, and people know the PIN, etc., to get money out of account.... yeah, will be a lot easier to continue the scam. Gotta keep the body hidden somehow, though.

do these fraudsters really need the body? why don't they just bury it or something?

[Gonzo]

One cool thing about being the world's oldest living person is that once you get there, you're guaranteed to hold that title for the rest of your life.

unless you died 30 years ago

[Quasi]

do these fraudsters really need the body? why don't they just bury it or something?

Easier to provide proof they didn't kill the person? Less chance of getting caught when someone happens upon the body? They like the smell of rotting flesh?

[limabeanactuary]

do these fraudsters really need the body? why don't they just bury it or something?

Which fraudsters?

The ones who brought the body to a bank in a wheelchair did it, because the bank wasn't going to cash the check without seeing the guy who it was actually made out to. They had attempted it first without the body, and then came back later with it.

Yes, it didn't turn out well for them.

My point was that in the age of direct deposit, ATMs, other electronic transfer of funds, it would be easier for some to do this type of fraud into the future. They just would need to know how to access the accounts, and that might be relatively easy if it's an older relative you're already doing the finances for (cf. the Brooke Astor case)

[campbell]

I'm starting to believe none of the world's oldest people are in Japan at all:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HBE03G0&show_article=1


TOKYO, Aug. 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A 113-year-old woman designated as Tokyo's oldest person does not reside at the apartment in Suginami Ward where she is registered to live and her whereabouts is unknown, the ward office said Monday.

The woman is Fusa Furuya, who was born in July 1897, according to the ward office and police.

Ward officials visited her residence on Friday, following the discovery earlier in the week of mummified remains believed to be of a man regarded as Tokyo's oldest man at age 111 at his home in Adachi Ward.
....
According to statistics compiled by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, there were 40,399 centenarians in Japan as of September 2009.

But the recent developments in the capital suggest some of them might already be dead or unaccounted for.

A similar controversy involving centenarians emerged in 2005, when a 110-year-old woman in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward, who ranked 19th on the ministry's list of the 100 oldest citizens at the time, was found to have been missing for more than 40 years. The ministry stopped releasing the annual list the following year.

An official at the health ministry said the ministry has been instructing local governments in recent years to send officials to the registered houses of centenarians and confirm they really live there.

But one local government official said it is difficult to do so since they have no authority to conduct on-site inspections at centenarians' residences.

The 2005 incident prompted many other local governments to confirm the whereabouts of centenarians, leading to the discovery that a total of 52 centenarians thought to be alive were either dead or missing.

[campbell]

and now an intersection with pension concerns....


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-04/missing-centenarians-revive-concern-about-japan-s-flawed-pension-records.html


The disappearance of some of Japan’s oldest citizens is raising concern that some families are bilking the nation’s pension system even as others risk being deprived of payments for the same reason -- poor record keeping.

Officials in Tokyo are searching for the whereabouts of Fusa Furuya, listed as the city’s oldest woman, who would be 113 years if alive, after it came to light last week that Tokyo’s oldest listed man likely died more than 30 years ago. In 2007, the government came under fire after the welfare ministry lost millions of files related to the government-led pension system, stirring concern that citizens in the world’s fastest-aging nation might not receive payments they were due.

The incidents highlight Japan’s problems with tracking people eligible for social welfare benefits. The latest record- keeping mishaps turn the problem on its head, allowing the deceased to continue receiving monthly allotments.

“It is impossible to keep a check on who is alive or dead, unless somebody registers a person’s death,” said Midori Kotani, a senior research director at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute Inc. “The pension system is founded on the premise that people are good, not that they kill family members at home, and bury them.”
I have a feeling that last quote was loosely translated from Japanese.

But maybe I'm wrong.

[Snagus]

“The pension system is founded on the premise that people are good, not that they kill family members at home, and bury them.”

There's a third possibility: the old people die of natural causes and no one tells the pension authority because they want to keep getting the check, and also because it would be rude to say someone was dead without making really really really sure.

[Gonzo]

so how much weight do these "centenarians" carry when they compute Japan's record life-expectancy?

[Listeria]

I'm starting to believe none of the world's oldest people are in Japan at all:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HBE03G0&show_article=1
!!!!
Seriously rethinking the soy and green tea...

[ElDucky]

I also thought the Japanese were efficient, but they lost millions of records about their pensioners. Everything about Japan is a lie!

[Gonzo]

first Toyota, then this!

[carrot]

Maybe one of the long-term effects of nuclear radiation is invisibility.

[Gonzo]

Maybe one of the long-term effects of nuclear radiation is invisibility.

:yikes: :shake2: :lol:

[ElDucky]

Woh, I think you solved it. Not that they are invisible, but they might as well be, because they are ninjas.

[campbell]

Between this and the retained asset account brou-ha-ha, I'm not sure which of the two "scandals" is more ridiculous:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-05/japan-seeks-to-locate-840-elderly-residents-amid-pension-records-scandal.html


Japan’s government is investigating the whereabouts of 840 pensioners over the age of 85 amid widening concern families may be collecting payments intended for dead relatives.

The search for the elderly residents has been conducted at random since June, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said yesterday in a faxed statement. The result of the inquiry will be released later this month.

Some 57 residents over the age of 100 are unaccounted for, the Mainichi newspaper reported yesterday, citing its own investigation. Japan’s centenarian population has more than tripled to 40,399 people in the past decade, according to ministry statistics released last year.

Officials in Tokyo are also searching for the city’s oldest woman, who would be 113 years if alive, after a scandal involving a man thought to be the city’s oldest living man.

Family members concealed the man’s death for about 30 years, according to a Kyodo News report last week. The man, whose remains were found mummified in the house where he once lived with his daughter, received about 9.5 million yen ($110,000) in pension payments when his wife died six years ago, Kyodo said.

In 2007, the government came under fire after the welfare ministry lost millions of files related to the government-led pension system, stirring concern that citizens in the world’s fastest-aging nation might not receive payments they were due.

Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that Cuba's literacy rate stat is totally made up by a dictatorial government.

If I can't believe government statistics, what can I believe?

[Incredible Hulctuary]

I also thought the Japanese were efficient, but they lost millions of records about their pensioners. Everything about Japan is a lie!

Japan's domestic industries are VERY inefficient, even though their export-focused industries are world class.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3720070.stm

http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/value-japanese-inefficiency

[campbell]

irassyamase! [or whatever]

[Actuary321]

Which fraudsters?

The ones who brought the body to a bank in a wheelchair did it, because the bank wasn't going to cash the check without seeing the guy who it was actually made out to. They had attempted it first without the body, and then came back later with it.

Yes, it didn't turn out well for them.

My point was that in the age of direct deposit, ATMs, other electronic transfer of funds, it would be easier for some to do this type of fraud into the future. They just would need to know how to access the accounts, and that might be relatively easy if it's an older relative you're already doing the finances for (cf. the Brooke Astor case)Wasn't that the start of a L&O episode?

[campbell]

Wasn't that the start of a L&O episode?

Ripped from the headlines!

Hey, it's pretty easy to write episodes when you get your stories from the pages of the NY tabs.

[seabreeze]

Eugenie Blanchard lived a really, really long life.

The 114-year-old nun—believed to be the world's oldest person — died on Thursday in the French West Indies.

Blanchard died in a hospital on Saint-Barthelemy, a French overseas territory where she was also born.

She was the sixth of 13 children, and she moved to Curacao where she became a nun in 1920.

Blanchard went by the nickname "Douchy," a Dutch Creole world that means "Sweets," because she was known to hand out candy to children, in hopes of getting them to study religion, the AFP reported.

At the age of 60, Blanchard returned to Saint Barthelemy and has lived in a nursing home for the past three decades, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

She took the title of world's oldest in May, after Japan's Kama Chinen died just a week before her 115th birthday.

Now, an East Texan is the oldest person in the world.

Eunice G. Sanborn, 114, of Jacksonville, was born on July 20, 1896, five months after Blanchard.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/11/04/2010-11-04_worlds_oldest_person_eugenie_blanchard_dead_at_ 114_years_old.html?r=news#ixzz14LRyCVhl

If I were Eunice I'd be afraid, very afraid.

[anon3]

I'm thinking if my name was Eugenie, I'd probably go by a nickname - but I'm not so sure I'd pick Douchy. RIP Douchy.

[1695814]

I tried to come up with a snappy joke, but failed, so I'll just post this:
La. woman Mississippi Winn, thought to be oldest-living African-American in US, dies at 113
Associated Press
Last update: January 15, 2011 - 11:42 AM


SHREVEPORT, La. - When she turned 113, Mississippi Winn could still stand up on her own and never thought her age was a detriment to her life.

The upbeat former domestic worker from Shreveport, known in the city as "Sweetie," died Friday afternoon at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home, said Milton Carroll, an investigator with the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office. He said he could not release her cause of death.

Winn was believed to be the oldest living African-American in the U.S. and the seventh-oldest living person in the world, said Robert Young of the Gerontology Research Group, which verifies information for Guinness World Records.
Young said Winn was one of two known people left in the United States whose parents both were almost certainly born into slavery because documents show they were born before the end of the Civil War, though her great-niece Mary C. Hollins says Winn never acknowledged that.

"I don't know much about that," Hollins recalled Winn saying when asked about her parents' early years.
Young visited Winn in July 2010 and remembered her being much more fit than others her age.
"When I asked her how old she was, she knew she was 113 but she thought she was young," he said. "She always thought there would be a next year. Unfortunately that didn't happen. That was just the thing — she had a very positive attitude."

With Winn's death, Young's Los Angeles-based gerontology group has verified Mamie Rearden, 112, of Edgefield, S.C., as the current oldest known living African-American in the U.S. He said Eunice Sanborn, 114, of Jacksonville, Texas, is the world's oldest known living person.

Hollins said Friday evening that Winn was in good health and mentally sharp until recently.

She described her great-aunt as "a strong-willed person, a disciplinarian" who believed that elders should be respected.

"She was living on her own until she was 103," Hollins said, cooking for herself and taking walks. "She just believed she could handle anything."

Winn, who never married, was a caretaker of children and a cook. She lived nearly her entire life in Louisiana, though she resided in Seattle, Wash. from 1957 to 1975, Hollins said. She had been a member of Shreveport's Avenue Baptist Church since 1927 and used to say, "I am gonna stay here as long as he wants me to stay here."

"One of the reasons for her longevity was that she just kind of took things as they'd come, everyday life and living. She didn't let nothing upset her and get all hyped up by some of the things as we do," Hollins said.
Carroll said Winn was well-known in Shreveport. Last spring, the mayor declared "Miss Mississippi Winn Day" on March 31 when she turned 113.

"She was just a vibrant lady," he said. "Once you came in contact with her, you were impacted."

According to a biography released by the city, Winn was one of eight children, including a sister who died in 2000 at age 100.

"Her father named her Mississippi but her mother always called her Sweetie," the bio said. "Her favorite hobby is sewing and favorite book is the Bible."

Her favorite quote from the Bible: "Be ye kind one to another."

[Interesting Post]

Noooooo!!!! Not again!

When will it stop?? They keep dropping like flies!

A Texas woman cited as the world's oldest person has died at the age of 114.

Patricia Ellis of Boren-Conner Funeral Home of Jacksonville says Eunice G. Sanborn of Jacksonville died Monday morning at her home.

Sanborn's caretaker, David French, did not immediately respond to a message Monday.

The Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group in Los Angeles listed Sanborn as the world's oldest person, based on data from the 1900 census. Robert Young of the group said the title now passes to 114-year-old Besse Cooper of Monroe, Ga., who is 114 years and five months old.

Sanborn acquired the distinction Nov. 4 upon the death of a French nun, Eugenie Blanchard, on the French Caribbean island of St. Barts. She was 114.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41359879/ns/us_news-life/?gt1=43001

[Ranger]

Maybe if we had a single payer nationalized healthcare system, then these old people would quit dying all the time.

[1695814]

It kind of makes one wonder...how many world's oldest persons are there?

[Incredible Hulctuary]

I checked the actuarial tables, which say everybody 100 years or older is already dead.

[campbell]

Mine have \omega = 120

[Paul Blart]

Mine have \omega = 120

You're obviously using one of those new fangled actuarial tables :heynow:

[ShakeNBakes]

I checked the actuarial tables, which say everybody 100 years or older is already dead.
ZOMBIES??

:ohnoes:

[The Drunken Actuary]

OK, worlds oldest man actually. Some chick in Georgia has him beat by 26 days. Anywhoo,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110415/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_world_s_oldest_man

[The Drunken Actuary]

This guy is awesome!
"I think he did pretty dang good," Breuning said of Truman. "But you know, all presidents done something good. Well, most of them. Except that last one." :lol:

[ao fan]

This guy is awesome!
:lol:
:lol:

[Inconceivable]

Enjoyed the article.

[Browncoat]

And, on the other side of the spectrum...

:link: (http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?p=4592916#post4592916)

[Browncoat]

This guy was awesome!"I think he did pretty dang good," Breuning said of Truman. "But you know, all presidents done something good. Well, most of them. Except that last one."
:lol:

IFYP, and to be clear, the president he said did no good was Bush:

Breuning stuck up for Truman, saying there probably would have been a lot more people killed had Truman not made the decision to bomb the Japanese.

"I think he did pretty dang good," Breuning said. "But you know, all presidents done something good. Well, most of them. Except that last one."

Breuning, a self-described Republican, meant President George W. Bush.

[The Drunken Actuary]

IFYP, and to be clear, the president he said did no good was Bush:

I thought that was clear. :shrug: But if it wasn't, i'm surprised to see the clarification coming from you.

[Interesting Post]

What in the world is causing all of these oldest people to die off all the time?!

Some new virus?

[Browncoat]

I thought that was clear. :shrug: But if it wasn't, i'm surprised to see the clarification coming from you.

:toth:

[T-roy Boy]

Saw 3 centuries too. Cool!

[CaptainDingo]

I personally know someone who is 106. She has a ways to go to 114, but she is still getting out, going to church, etc. She even made peach cobbler for my wife and I when she was 101. Crazy to think you can still be doing things at that age.

[Oliver Klozov]

I personally know someone who is 106. She has a ways to go to 114, but she is still getting out, going to church, etc. She even made peach cobbler for my wife and I when she was 101. Crazy to think you can still be doing things at that age.

I hope that isn't a euphamism.

[General Apathy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/17/worlds-oldest-panda-34-dies-in-china/

Ming Ming, the world's oldest panda, has died of old age, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. She was 34.

This epidemic is spreading!

[ElDucky]

I won't believe it until the panda releases a long form birth certificate.

[SamTheEagle]

So has there ever been a day where the world's oldest person died twice?

[ElDucky]

Zombie day, where someone forgot to double tap.

[limabeanactuary]

Zombie day, where someone forgot to double tap.

oh jeez.

[ORLYLOL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Martin


Didn't know he died :(

Dude smoked and drank, plus he participated in a marathon at 101, though he walked it.

[cohomology]

buster age contested might be only 97 at death, but not bad for smoker/drinker.

[Gene Yuss]

This guy is awesome!
:lol:

Except for this part: "The man who otherwise preached kindness and service to others acknowledged that he had mixed feelings about the war and the Nazis. He expressed some sympathy toward Hitler"

[Patience]

So has there ever been a day where the world's oldest person died twice?

no (since 1955 death)

closest
1/24/07 & 1/28/07
10/31/03 & 11/13/03
12/27/87 & 1/11/88

[Steve Grondin]

mu-hahahaha.

Seriously RIP.

[Miss Understood]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/21/brazil.oldest.person.dies/index.html

[Swan]

They're dropping like flies.

Old, sickly flies.

[2pac Shakur]

So has there ever been a day where the world's oldest person died twice?

Um, a person can only die once. Dummy.
Is this guy really an actuary?

[Incredible Hulctuary]

World's oldest person - alive! 120 years old, they just found her in a remote village in Brazil. State workers found her birth certificate showing a DOB in 1890, and she really looks like 120.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/BlogsMainImage/brazil675.jpg

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2011/06/25/woman-aged-120-years-old-discovered-brazil

However, I haven't found any other sites confirming this story.

[1695814]

cross post (http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?p=5404878#post5404878)
http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/mcf110805.gif
http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/mcf110805.gif

[Steve Grondin]

Happy 115th Birthday Besse Cooper
:party:

What do you have to say?

I'd like to annuitize now please.

[internetguy87]

World's oldest person - alive! 120 years old, they just found her in a remote village in Brazil. State workers found her birth certificate showing a DOB in 1890, and she really looks like 120.

Because everyone is an expert in telling the difference between someone who is 105 or so, and someone who is 120.

"Oh Gladdis you look so young and beautiful compared to Ol' Rose over there."

[Interesting Post]

Noooooo!!!! It happened again!

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1747175

[1695814]

My condolences to the family. :-(

[Klaymen]

The new oldest person is here in the Des Moines burbs. People say here she was interviewed and recalls when the White Sox won the world series in 1908.

[MightySchoop]

The new oldest person is here in the Des Moines burbs. People say here she was interviewed and recalls when the White Sox won the world series in 1908.

Is she a suspect in the investigation?

[Loner]

Because everyone is an expert in telling the difference between someone who is 105 or so, and someone who is 120.

"Oh Gladdis you look so young and beautiful compared to Ol' Rose over there."

A lot of times it's a case of not reporting their parents' death so they can keep collecting the pension. Just sayin'.

[Listerine]

RIP, every oldest person and non-oldest person who has ever died.


Except if they were extremely bad.

[Steve Grondin]

With the Dec 17th death of Dina Manfredini, the US gives up the title to Japan, and the world's oldest person (or at least well documented oldest) is a man. Jiroemon Kimura.

[secondlife]

A lot of times it's a case of not reporting their parents' death so they can keep collecting the pension. Just sayin'.
Really? Isn't that a criminal offense like robbing a 7-eleven/liquor store?

[Listerine]

When will this nightmare end???

[Pseudolus]

When will this nightmare end???

Escaton, imo.

[Runner]

Really? Isn't that a criminal offense like robbing a 7-eleven/liquor store?
No, it's white collar. Totally different.

[Feif]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4323052,00.html

Arab-Israeli woman who was supposedly 124 years old died.

[George L. Costanza]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/south-carolina-woman-listed-as-oldest-us-citizen-mamie-rearden-dies-at-114/2013/01/05/55318c94-576d-11e2-8a12-5dfdfa9ea795_story.html

Oldest US person dead again.

[campbell]

WHHHHHYYYYYYYY

[keyser soze]

World's oldest woman - DEAD!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50446703

:burn: :yikes: http://theanimalenclosure.com/forums/images/smilies/GrimReaper.gif

[keyser soze]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/south-carolina-woman-listed-as-oldest-us-citizen-mamie-rearden-dies-at-114/2013/01/05/55318c94-576d-11e2-8a12-5dfdfa9ea795_story.html

Oldest US person dead again.

Not again! :yikes:
http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/04/02/17572809-americas-oldest-person-elsie-thompson-dies-at-113-she-appreciated-every-moment?lite=

http://theanimalenclosure.com/forums/images/smilies/GrimReaper.gif

[campbell]

hey, that was posted 4 hours ago, but she died on March 21.

I smell a rat!



wait

aw crap, gotta call the exterminator

[Patience]

funny how they mention Guiness - is their verification needed? It is not a witnessed event

[Miss Understood]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/world/asia/worlds-oldest-person-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Linus]

Not again!!! Clearly we need some government studies on why the oldest people in the world keep dying!!!

[3rookie]

Not again!!! Clearly we need some government studies on why the oldest people in the world keep dying!!!I certainly hope I never become the oldest person in the world.

[HasilAtkins]

I certainly hope I never become the oldest person in the world.

This one is within your control.

[Interesting Post]

I certainly hope I never become the oldest person in the world.

Basically a death sentence if history is any guide

[ElDucky]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/world/asia/worlds-oldest-person-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Love Yoda in the comments.

[redprinceton]

Love Yoda in the comments.

:lol:

Yes!

[Linus]

Death Panels.

[3rookie]

This one is within your control.I'm a little concerned because I'm climbing the charts at quite a rate. I just raced past 1,174,928,412.

[Guerilla poster]

It's Obamas fault imo