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Oldest Person in the World turns 117!

vaslav37vaslav37 Posts: 69,565
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Osaka, Japan.

Misao Okawa celebrates her 117th Birthday today.

Mrs Okawa becomes only the fifth person in history to reach this milestone.

Happy Birthday.

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    Poppy99_PoppyPoppy99_Poppy Posts: 2,255
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    Son is 92!
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    vaslav37vaslav37 Posts: 69,565
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    Poppy99_Poppy wrote: »
    Son is 92!

    Daughter is 94.
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    zx50zx50 Posts: 91,272
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    Misao Okawa said that sushi and sleep are the reasons why she has lived so long. I suspect the sleep had more to do with her living longer than sushi did. I'm assuming she meant that she had great sleeps every night.
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    vaslav37vaslav37 Posts: 69,565
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    zx50 wrote: »
    Misao Okawa said that sushi and sleep are the reasons why she has lived so long. I suspect the sleep had more to do with her living longer than sushi did. I'm assuming she meant that she had great sleeps every night.

    I wonder if she will make it to 118
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    Pisces CloudPisces Cloud Posts: 30,239
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    Happy Birthday to Misao. Been alive in three centuries.
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    ArcanaArcana Posts: 37,521
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    Still in with a chance of being the last ever 19th Centurion.
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    zx50zx50 Posts: 91,272
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    vaslav37 wrote: »
    I wonder if she will make it to 118

    It would be great if she carried on getting older and older. I am wondering how old someone can be before their body/heart just gives up.
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    PunksNotDeadPunksNotDead Posts: 21,303
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    She's gonna need a bloody big cake!
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    Another POVAnother POV Posts: 2,214
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    Misao still has a way to go to pip that French ladies age record.
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    Pisces CloudPisces Cloud Posts: 30,239
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    Arcana wrote: »
    Still in with a chance of being the last ever 19th Centurion.

    It's amazing to think that some people born 1998, who'd be 17 this year, will still be alive when we hit the 22nd century.
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    idlewildeidlewilde Posts: 8,698
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    I thought this thread was going to be about Bruce Forsyth
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    David_HillDavid_Hill Posts: 3,073
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    zx50 wrote: »
    Misao Okawa said that sushi and sleep are the reasons why she has lived so long. I suspect the sleep had more to do with her living longer than sushi did. I'm assuming she meant that she had great sleeps every night.

    I read this as sushi and sheep lol.
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    vaslav37vaslav37 Posts: 69,565
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    Dan Fortesque wrote: »
    It's amazing to think that some people born 1998, who'd be 17 this year, will still be alive when we hit the 22nd century.

    It will probarly happen.
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    itscoldoutsideitscoldoutside Posts: 3,190
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    Dan Fortesque wrote: »
    It's amazing to think that some people born 1998, who'd be 17 this year, will still be alive when we hit the 22nd century.

    They would have to reach 100, still quite a goal even today. Although people born this year are far more likely to see it.

    It depends if they make good improvements in health care, it might not happen, i.e. like the flying cars, they say we will be this and that in 50 years, but in reality we hardly moved forward in many aspects of life.
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    HenryGartenHenryGarten Posts: 24,800
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    Last time I checked there were only five people left born before 1900.
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    itscoldoutsideitscoldoutside Posts: 3,190
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    This guy claimed to have been born in 1677. He died in 1933 aged 256.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen

    This woman is the officially oldest ever person at 122.

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

    But she outlived both her daughter and grandson by several decades. Not really sure I would want to live that long.
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    Mitu_PappiMitu_Pappi Posts: 1,341
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    Wasnt there a case of a woman in japan claimed to be 115 but it was a scam. The family were drawing her pension by claiming she was alive. She had been dead for 2 decades
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    HenryGartenHenryGarten Posts: 24,800
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    Mitu_Pappi wrote: »
    Wasnt there a case of a woman in japan claimed to be 115 but it was a scam. The family were drawing her pension by claiming she was alive. She had been dead for 2 decades

    Yes that is true.

    The oldest person in the world used to be cited as a Japanese man. However that seems to have erased from the records.
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    NightFox_DancerNightFox_Dancer Posts: 14,740
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    I read the thread title as saying she had just turned 1171! :o
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    Keiō LineKeiō Line Posts: 12,979
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    Mitu_Pappi wrote: »
    Wasnt there a case of a woman in japan claimed to be 115 but it was a scam. The family were drawing her pension by claiming she was alive. She had been dead for 2 decades
    Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 yearsBirthday cake, Officials had planned a birthday celebration to honour Mr Kato but they found him dead
    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.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10809128
    There was a follow up report where it was revealed the Japanese authorities thought thousands of people who were thought to be alive were dead.
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    Keiō LineKeiō Line Posts: 12,979
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    HenryGarten wrote: »
    Yes that is true.

    The oldest person in the world used to be cited as a Japanese man. However that seems to have erased from the records.
    I think you have to take a lot of the claims with a pinch of salt.

    At one time people ignored all the claim coming out of China because so many were made up by the government
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    degsyhufcdegsyhufc Posts: 59,251
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    Mitu_Pappi wrote: »
    Wasnt there a case of a woman in japan claimed to be 115 but it was a scam. The family were drawing her pension by claiming she was alive. She had been dead for 2 decades
    HenryGarten wrote: »
    Yes that is true.

    The oldest person in the world used to be cited as a Japanese man. However that seems to have erased from the records.
    There was some African dude who claimed he was 140 or something and he tried to prove it by telling accounts of what happened during his lifetime, expecting everyone to just believe him and not that he could have just read up on those events :D
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    HenryGartenHenryGarten Posts: 24,800
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    Keiō Line wrote: »
    I think you have to take a lot of the claims with a pinch of salt.

    At one time people ignored all the claim coming out of China because so many were made up by the government

    Yes but this man was verified by the Guinness Book of Records for many years.

    He was Shigechiyo Izumi

    I heard doubts expressed about him many years ago. The same source expressed doubts about Madame Calment too.
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    CryolemonCryolemon Posts: 8,670
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    itscoldoutside wrote: »
    This guy claimed to have been born in 1677. He died in 1933 aged 256.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen

    Wasn't there also a Russian monk who claimed to be like 700 years old?
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    hyperstarspongehyperstarsponge Posts: 16,707
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    So its not true then?
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