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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:03PM (8 children)
... we're finally free of those fuckers, amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:11PM (5 children)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:18PM
All of the short-lived people were so ashamed of themselves that they committed seppuku.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 23 2018, @07:19PM
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, regular huge quakes, Fugu, tentacle porn, and the occasional giant lizard invasion.
Who's gonna convince Trump to follow the right example ?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Monday April 23 2018, @08:25PM (2 children)
My Great Grandmother was born in the year 1899. She lived to be 92 (maybe 93, I was young so don't remember exactly). Sure that is a far cry from 117, but 24 years of being even more decrepit, seems like hell to me.
Personally, I hope I inherited some of those longevity genes. I'd rather enjoy living to see my great grand kids, and I would also enjoy living to see all my enemies dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @06:52AM
Don't forget to piss on their graves.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Tuesday April 24 2018, @10:25AM
Some people are old at 70, some are sprightly at 95. This 105 year old guy could probably beat me at 36 on a bike: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/04/105-year-old-cyclist-sets-new-world-record/ [telegraph.co.uk]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:36PM (1 child)
When your time comes, no tears will be shed. The doctors and nurses will go about their duties as usual and will not think about your life and what you did or didn't do.
The newer generations after you will have better things to do than stand in silence when you pass away. Amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @10:47PM
You'd be a narcissist to think otherwise.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:29PM (9 children)
The woman lived for 117*365 = 42705 days.
That is, 42705 days only, out of which the first 6000 days (16.4 years) were mostly spent drinking milk, doing home work, playing and so on and she had no chance to realize the meaning of life or contemplate other important things.
Most people don't live for 42705 days. Maybe 25550 days (70 years) or so in total. That is not much time. Yet the Khazar Jews make us sit in front of their T.Vs and waste our short time here while we do not realize they are robbing us blind (monetarily and spiritually) and want to take complete control over everything. That is their wish and it will not be fulfilled. We humans will find a way to break the jewish spell.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:32PM (4 children)
It was the same question that plagued the Nazis.
What will we do when we are free of The Jew?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:45PM (2 children)
That question did not need to be answered, as it was common knowledge what life was like before the jews ruined it.
Jews were kicked out of 109 locations historically and none of those places missed them. 109 Locations whence Jews have been Expelled since AD250 [biblebelievers.org.au]
Watch the film "Jew Suss" and see for yourself what filthy race we are dealing with. Jew has always been the real enemy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @08:19PM
"race" hahaha
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @09:49PM
Incidentally, I recently did for a class. Tune out the obvious antisemitic inlays, and you are left with a timeless story of a boss (the duke) bypassing the establishment racist swamp (the council) to bring in a talented administrator (the jew) who improves infrastructure and gives free business lessons. Suddenly, the boss dies of a heart attack, and the establishment scum takes horrible revenge on the administrator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @10:40PM
Hi trolly troll, still pounding the persecution complex are we? They have support groups for that you know. Or you could escape the jewspiracy for good with a piece of rope and/or plastic bag.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:42PM
Um, I'm pretty sure you're projecting your upbringing on her. Back in 1899 educating children for most of their early years was not high on the list priorities. Putting them to work in the fields, on the farms, in the mines and in the factories was the priority.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @08:35PM (1 child)
Yes! Humans and lizard people alike should untie against the Khazar Jews!!eleven!
Er... what, exactly, is a Khazar Jew? Are they different from Orthodox Jews? Are regular Jews ok? Should regular Jews join with the humans and lizard people to fight the Khazars??? Which side is the Hebrew Hammer on? Hmm, I'll bet the Hebrew Hammer is a Khazar Jew. What about diplomacy to the Democratic People's Republic of the North Pole? Will Santa commit legions of elven slave armies to the alliance of humans and lizard people against the Khazar Jews?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Hartree on Monday April 23 2018, @10:21PM
It's a theory on the origin of the Ashkenazi Jews used by various anti-Semitic groups. the idea (IIRC) is that the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews never really were in Judea and came from a southern Turkic empire called Khazar.
Khazar really did exist (and was used as the name source for the renaming of the Klingons to the Khazari in an early Trek game on the Plato System called Empire.)
In truth, Khazar was a mix of various religions and was a competitor to the Byzantines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @10:50PM
It was the same question that plagued the Nazis.
What will we do when we are free of The Jew?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 23 2018, @07:33PM (5 children)
Wow, so she was there at the very beginning of Japan's rise to global power when they beat the Russians in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, watched their military power peak in WWII, then defeat, then their economic might crest in the 80's, then slide into malaise. It's hard to imagine a more dramatic slice of Japanese history to have personally witnessed.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @07:59PM
"I mean, things changed, but it kind of seemed like they always stayed the same."
The here and now never seems amazing.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday April 23 2018, @08:01PM (2 children)
It's hardly the only dramatic century in Japanese history. For instance, the previous century had seen the Boshin War between the shogun and the emperor, followed by the modernization following victory by Emperor Meiji. And if you go back into feudal Japan, you're talking about warring daimyo on a regular basis.
The idea that there has ever been a time when things didn't change much has no basis in recorded history.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @08:08PM
And Jackie Chan was in all of them!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @08:28PM
Also, nobody claimed "there has ever been a time when things didn't change much".
Don't you get tired of building up fake arguments and then tearing them down?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @10:22PM
Except maybe the part when Tom Cruise was the Last Samurai.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Hartree on Monday April 23 2018, @08:23PM
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.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 23 2018, @11:27PM (4 children)
Since the century turned at least one year before then [ccbce.com], and possibly 4 or more years.... then it is any of 3 people [wikipedia.org] who died last year who were born in 1898. And that really makes you think..... nobody likes a math geek, Scully. [imdb.com]
(yes, still quite an achievement.)
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:58AM (2 children)
I read you or first link, but that's not how we measure dates today.
The first century started in 1 CE (An arbitrary year). One hundred years makes a century. Therefore the first century spanned from 1CE to 100 CE. The second century, then, started in 101 CE.
This puts 1899 and 1900 in the 19th century.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:36PM (1 child)
Which sidesteps the issue and does not address the fact that we know that arbitrary year 1 CE actually occurred 1 to 4 years earlier than it was attributed to. Or, put another way, there was actually been 2019-2023 or so years between your arbitrary 1 CE and now.
(Wikipedia on "Common Era") Or here [religioustolerance.org].
Therefore the 1st Century of CE existence actually spanned from either 4 or 1 BCE through 95 through 99 CE. Therefore the 19th century of CE existence actually ended between 1895 and 1899. I was right, sorry. Or, while we can say that a person was the oldest living person, we actually have no definitive idea which AD or CE century a person really belongs to unless a definitive answer solves the Dionysius Exiguus puzzle objectively. If you are a math geek, whom nobody likes. Time is relative anyway. I declare I am 1,000 years old today by the subjective approximation of my own thought cycles. Let the feast begin!
However, your answer did get me to look up the interesting fact that apparently the last year 1899 birth outlived all people born in 1900 - the list picks up in 1901.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:26PM
All of this assumes we are using constant duration centuries. It would be easier to say that the first century CE was between 100 and 105 years long, and the rest were as expected.
(I expect the current century to last 100 years, for what it's worth.)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 24 2018, @10:16AM
Very nice and "smart," tweet. Beautiful reminder about Jesus -- tremendous guy, a truly great leader, possibly the greatest before me. I love to go to church and drink my little wine and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of forgiveness. I do that as often as I can because I feel cleansed.