# Oldest living man died. If you can read this you just moved up on the list.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690 "2020-05-29T19:15:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/1 "2020-05-29T19:15:32Z")
Title says it all, I’m slightly closer to the record now.
[World’s oldest man dies peacefully in his sleep.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/uk/worlds-oldest-man-dies-at-112-scli-intl-gbr/index.html)
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/2 "2020-05-29T19:40:24Z")
The trouble with being the world’s oldest living person is that you seldom get to hold the title for long.
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/3 "2020-05-29T21:06:25Z")
According to the link, he was only the world’s oldest living MAN when he died aged 112. The world’s oldest living PERSON is a Japanese woman who turned 117 last January.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/4 "2020-05-29T21:35:12Z")
> [@markn\_1](#):
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> According to the link, he was only the world’s oldest living MAN when he died aged 112. The world’s oldest living PERSON is a Japanese woman who turned 117 last January.
Forgot that women had their own category. So only men move up a notch.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/5 "2020-05-29T22:09:52Z")
He didn’t look a day over 90.
Seriously, he looked pretty good, full head of hair, he didn’t have that shrunken “dried-apple” look that some super-old people get.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/6 "2020-05-29T22:18:53Z")
If we allow categories, I hold the record for the world’s oldest living person in my house.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/7 "2020-05-29T22:25:15Z")
I once held the record as the youngest person in the world.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/8 "2020-05-29T23:04:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> If we allow categories, I hold the record for the world’s oldest living person in my house.
I hold the record for oldest, youngest, tallest, shortest, heaviest, lightest, wealthiest, and poorest person living in my house (simultaneously).
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/9 "2020-05-30T03:53:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> If we allow categories, I hold the record for the world’s oldest living person in my house.
So do I - by exactly 20 years.
The cat, in cat years, is catching up.
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### Author:  [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/10 "2020-06-01T08:57:27Z")
This keeps happening - I hope I never get to be the holder, the position seems cursed.
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### Author:  [@Dude111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dude111)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/11 "2020-06-01T10:00:13Z")
Wow god bless him!!!
It must be hard living that long… Everyone you know is basically gone,must be very lonely…
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/12 "2020-06-01T11:00:03Z")
I know three people who lived to 100. Two of them outlived one of their children, and those children were pretty old when they died-- retired, grandparents. Still, has to be hard to lose a child under any circumstances.
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/13 "2020-06-01T11:19:19Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Forgot that women had their own category. So only men move up a notch.
You overcorrected there! All but a few dozen women also move up a notch. Maybe fewer, depending on how many of them can read.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/14 "2020-06-01T12:30:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> If we allow categories, I hold the record for the world’s oldest living person in my house.
When my mom died, a few years ago, it was unsettling to realize that I was the oldest extant family member. My parents were only children, I their oldest child. Freaky.
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/15 "2020-06-03T02:51:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> I once held the record as the youngest person in the world.
No kidding, me too! _record-holder fistbump_
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-living-man-died-if-you-can-read-this-you-just-moved-up-on-the-list/854690/16 "2020-06-04T12:38:24Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> [World’s oldest man dies peacefully in his sleep.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/uk/worlds-oldest-man-dies-at-112-scli-intl-gbr/index.html)
Unlike the passengers in his car…
I’ll be here all week, tip your waitress, and try the veal.