AFP via the ABC reports on the death of Susannah Mushatt Jones, who had been the oldest living person. A spokesperson for the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) said of Ms. Jones:
She liked bacon and eggs, she liked to sleep a lot, she didn't drink and smoke, she did marry but she didn't have any kids.
She was born on 6 July 1899 in the U.S. state of Alabama, and died in a nursing home in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. On her 106th birthday she had said:
I surround myself with love and positive energy. That's the key to long life and happiness.
takyon: The current oldest living person is the last living person born in the 19th century 1800s.
Further information:
GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List
Biography of Jeanne Calment, oldest person ever
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2016, @06:41AM
Most have forgotten by now, but a major part of the current approach to cancer relies on the fact that probability of getting cancer does not drop after a certain age. This has been largely dismissed since the 1950s as due to inaccurate recording of age, etc. So how do we know this age is accurate?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday May 14 2016, @07:26AM
I don't know what the specific evidence was, but Guinness World Records and the Gerontology Research Group were satisfied as to her age.