# World's oldest person dies (Kane Tanaka, age 119)
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**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406 "2022-04-25T12:31:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/21 "2022-04-28T04:21:06Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> The oldest woman in the world died of old age?? That sounds suspiciously like some local officials were just phoning it in.
Joking aside, isn’t that pretty much true, though? If you say someone dies of “old age”, presumably that means that absent suspicious circumstances there’s just no point in trying to ascertain a specific immediate cause.
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### Author:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/22 "2022-04-28T14:12:28Z")
I would say that’s the case. Tanaka had twice survived cancer so I’d suspect cancer played a role in her death. Likely some form of congestive heart failure with a build up of fluid around the heart in her weakened “old age” state. However, living to be the second oldest verified person ever is an incredible achievement.
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### Author:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/23 "2022-04-28T14:14:59Z")
Lucile Randon is now the worlds oldest person at 118 but she set a record in 2021…she was then the worlds oldest person to have survived Covid 19.
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/24 "2022-04-28T14:30:21Z")
> [@Folly](#):
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> If I’m ever the oldest person alive, I will start to seriously believe in the whole quantum immortality thing.
Well, this is the oldest that you have ever been…
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### Author:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/25 "2022-04-28T15:09:01Z")
And the first day of the rest of their life?
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/26 "2022-04-28T16:15:37Z")
Are there charts to find out what percentage of humans live to a given age? Like 100 or above?
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406/27 "2022-04-28T16:19:50Z")
Apparently around 1985, [“the prevalence of centenarians in industrialized countries was approximately one centenarian per 10,000 people in the population.”](https://www.bumc.bu.edu/centenarian/overview/)
And apparently [about 1 in 1000 centenarians (age =\> 100 years) becomes a supercentenarian (age =\> 110 years).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercentenarian)
Here’s an [actuarial life table](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html) from the US Social Security Administration showing death probability and life expectancy at every age from 0 to 120 in a population of 100,000 individuals.
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