World’s oldest living human (by some margin, I think), Japan’s Kane Tanaka, shuffled off her mortal coil a couple of days ago.
The world’s oldest person is dead. Long live the world’s oldest person?
Meanwhile, the world’s youngest person changes constantly.
There was literally a topic about her like 5 days ago in here, what a weird coincidence.
119 years old? Pshaw, I have underwear older than that.
The world’s oldest person is alive.
And always will be.
I saw that family picture, when she was thirty two. She looked beautiful to me.
This woman wa born before my grandmother, who was born almost two years later, in December of 1904. But she did live to great age as well, dying in 2012, just before her 108th birthday.
My Mom is OLD, but her neighbors who take her dog for a walk have an Auntie who is 102. I wonder how close to the record she is???
I mentioned my grandmother, who lived to just shy of 108. For a few months she was the oldest member her congregation had ever had, but after she died, and a litlle more time passed, another lady took the record and reached 109. The congregation had built a new church in 1938, and that lady had been baptized, confirmed, and married at the previous site.
I hope I’m never named the oldest person alive.
Being bestowed with that title is a death sentence, I tells ya!
If I’m ever the oldest person alive, I will start to seriously believe in the whole quantum immortality thing.
Nobody gets out alive is one of those facts that can lead you spiraling down into an existential crisis if you’re not careful.
Spoiler for *The Good Place*
Nobody ever seems to hold the title of World’s Oldest Person for very long.
Any idea what she died of?
(Yes, I’m guessing “old age”, but maybe it was a runaway fruit cart that ran her over, or something like that. Never hurts to ask)
Tanaka’s general health:
“During her life, she suffered from a number of health issues, and had several operations, including surgeries for cataracts and colorectal cancer, but lived ‘peacefully’ in her final years.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220425101320/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-person-kane-26789849
Cause of death:
Local officials said Tanaka died of old age in hospital in Fukuoka city, western Japan, on Tuesday last week. . . . According to social media posts made by Tanaka’s family on 13 April, she had been “hospitalised and discharged repeatedly”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220425102051/https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html
The oldest woman in the world died of old age?? That sounds suspiciously like some local officials were just phoning it in.
I’m thinking of an episode on Mary Tyler Moore where she and Rhonda were updating the obit files for the newsroom in alphabetic order and by the time they got to Wee Willie Winkie, the oldest resident in Minneapolis, it was 2am and they were pretty loopy.
They went to bed intending on fixing it when they got up again but, of course, guess who died that night. The look on Ted Cassidy’s face as he realized what he was reading was priceless.
Lucile Randon, actually, aka Sister Andre.