Tuesday, May 4, 2010

2223...World's Oldest Person Dies

Wait, isn't that what happened to the other world's oldest person?

It is a more dangerous title than "deposed gang leader".

The story I cut and paste from news.com.au is here:

THE world's oldest person, a Japanese woman on the southern island of Okinawa, has died a week before her 115th birthday, a spokeswoman said.

Kama Chinen, who witnessed three centuries, died on Sunday, according to Kaoru Shijima, a spokeswoman at her care facility.

Petite and grey-haired, Ms Chinen spent her final years at a care centre in Nanjo on southeastern Okinawa. She was born on May 10, 1895 according to the Gerontology Research Group , which tracks individuals of extremely old age.

Her family guarded her privacy closely, and details regarding her death were not released to the press - many Japanese newspapers didn't even give her name.

Ms Chinen became the world's oldest known person when Gertrude Baines died in a Los Angeles hospital at age 115 in September.

The oldest human is now 114-year-old Eugenie Blanchard, a French woman born on February 16, 1896, according to the research group. The group has validated 75 "supercentenarians" worldwide who are at least 110 years old, according to its website.



We have a new winner in the "Who gives a f*ck category."

WFDS

1 comment:

  1. Well if she's dead she's no longer the "world's oldest living" anything. And, yes, it's an honour usually only briefly held and very rarely sought after. By the way, just a few months ago a spokesman for a team of medical researchers proclaimed that the first human to live to be 150 already walks among us. Kind of creepy, actually.

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