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posted by chromas on Monday April 23 2018, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the tennessine dept.

World's oldest person, last survivor of 19th century, dies in Japan at 117

The century of Lincoln, Darwin and Van Gogh has quietly passed into history with the death of the world's oldest known person and last survivor of the 19th century.

Nabi Tajima, 117, died in a hospital Saturday in Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan's Kyodo News reported. Tajima had been mostly bedridden at a nursing home in recent years. She was hospitalized about a month ago, family members told the news service.

Also at The Washington Post.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Hartree on Monday April 23 2018, @08:23PM

    by Hartree (195) on Monday April 23 2018, @08:23PM (#670864)

    I hope that it is the last century that we lose so completely. There are now no direct memories from then.

    Whether the ability to record information from the brain or some other means historians would welcome the ability to have access to the direct memories of the people alive at the time. They may be biased and distorted in a million ways, but there is no substitute for direct witness information to fill in the sketch of written records and archeological findings.

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