worlds oldest person dies

[andytb 10+ year member]

Mon Aug 13, 10:16 AM ET

The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman who counted eating well and getting rest as her hobbies, died Monday at age 114, a news report said.

Yone Minagawa, a widow who lived in a nursing home but was still sprightly late in life, died "of old age" Monday evening, Kyodo News reported.

There was no immediate answer to a telephone call placed to city hall in her town in southern Fukuoka prefecture.

Born on January 4, 1893, Minagawa was already in her 50s when Japan surrendered in World War II.

She had been certified as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records after Emma Faust Tillman, the daughter of freed American slaves, died in January.

Despite her advanced age, Minagawa was said to enjoy eating sweets and counted eating well and getting a good night's sleep as the secrets of her longevity.

Her nursing home said Minagawa had celebrated becoming the world's oldest person earlier this year with a Western-style lunch of bread, stew, salad and a dessert.

Japanese women are the world's oldest living people, in what experts attribute to a traditionally healthy diet and high standard of medical care.

Their life expectancy was a record 85.81 years in 2006, according to the government.

Japanese men are the world's second oldest with a life expectancy of 78.8 second only to men in Iceland who on average live to be 79.4.

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[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

Props to her, R.I.P:bowdown:

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

that's quite an achievement

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Cher's gonna beat that record by a longshot!

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Not too many people can say they witnessed the turn of the century ~ twice...and were old enough to remember it the 1st go 'round. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

R.I.P. madam.

 

[Nukedsodapop 5,000+ posts]

true that

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

that's pretty amazing.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

Just crazy to think of yourself living to 80-100, and still being able to drive, and do reasonable tasks just like people in thier 20's, but have so much more worldly knowledge about life, and the way things are. I think it would be so weird to look at yourself in the mirror at 80, and still be capable of doing the things you like to do with little assistance. Imagine feeling fine, but knowing that you'll be dead in the next 10 years, and reflecting back on all the things you've done and seen, all that you've learned, all that you've loved. I dunno though, most elderly people I talk to, including my grandparents, are so laid back, that they rarely worry about it, and have come to accept inevitable old age and death as a part of life.

Here's an old broad that had quite a wild life as well..right up to the end.

http://www.newsday.com/news/obituaries/am-astor0815,0,2736444.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Just crazy to think of yourself living to 80-100, and still being able to drive, and do reasonable tasks just like people in thier 20's, but have so much more worldly knowledge about life, and the way things are. I think it would be so weird to look at yourself in the mirror at 80, and still be capable of doing the things you like to do with little assistance. Imagine feeling fine, but knowing that you'll be dead in the next 10 years, and reflecting back on all the things you've done and seen, all that you've learned, all that you've loved. I dunno though, most elderly people I talk to, including my grandparents, are so laid back, that they rarely worry about it, and have come to accept inevitable old age and death as a part of life.
Here's an old broad that had quite a wild life as well..right up to the end.

http://www.newsday.com/news/obituaries/am-astor0815,0,2736444.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines

My grandmother tells me she knows she is going to die soon. The only people she is concerned for is us. I honestly dont understand what that is like, but i hope i get to understand it.