So says thisstory.
She allegedly has a 108 year old daughter.
For some reason my bullshit meter is ringing.
Is she cute?
To me she probably would be.
I could credit it mroe easily if the daughter weren’t adopted. It seems perfectly possible to me that a genetic line could produce startling longevity at some point. But that the trait woudl extend to adopted children seems doubtful . . .
It’s only too bad that when/if it does happen, the individuals carrying the trait will past the procreation stage before we know about it.
It could happen. All the records being destroyed is convenient.
Seems weird that we’re just hearing about this now. Why not when she turned 120 or 130? And even if she destroyed her personal ID info, wouldn’t there be other records? Her own parents, work, school, taxes, marriage?
We’ll just have to cut her open and count the rings.
Sorry, no cite, but will vague memories do? I remember in the late 70’s, “wellness” was coming into vogue within the group of people I hung around with. I went to a conference where the speaker used the fact of some Russians living up to around 165 years old as proof of the power of eating right. If I remember correctly, these supercentenarians were finally discovered to have claimed their parents’ birth certificates (why, I have no idea), effectively doubling their age.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the same thing might not be going on here.
shakes fist Someone always beats me to the joke I want to make.
That’s it exactly. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
I hear she hasn’t had a bite to eat in over 93 years.
I will be truly amazed when one of these long-lived folks has lived a healthy lifestyle of no drinking or smoking, eating a healthy diet, and exercising regularly.
It seems these articles always mention unhealthy lifestyle choices…
Sounds to me like she is pretending to be someone who died without records so that she could avoid being branded a communist.
Given that this would make her 35 years older than the oldest documented human, I’m highly, highly skeptical.
After she dies they can tell how old she was. Women usually lie about being younger, not older?
How can they tell? Just curious. . .
There can be only one!
Find her death certificate, get her birth certificate, subtract.
We really can’t without documentation. There’s no good way to pin down someone’s age to the year after death once they’ve reached adulthood.
More to the point, however, it’s up to those claiming the extreme age (and anything older than 100 is fairly extreme, let alone older than 120) to provide evidence to support their assertion. The skeptics don’t have to prove, or show, diddly.