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Oldest Living Person Dies

posted by takyon on Saturday May 14 2016, @06:00AM   
from the three-centuries dept.

butthurt writes:

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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• Not in the 1800s Not in the 1800s (Score: 2, Disagree) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 14 2016, @09:10AM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday May 14 2016, @09:10AM (#346018) Journal

  The 1800s started 1800 and ended 1809. Anyone born in that time would be more than 200 years old by now.

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• Re:Not in the 1800s Re:Not in the 1800s (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Saturday May 14 2016, @09:41AM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday May 14 2016, @09:41AM (#346023) Journal

  WRONG [wikipedia.org]

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  • Re:Not in the 1800s (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2016, @01:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2016, @01:56PM (#346064)

    What, a pedant who doesn't actually know jack shit about the topic of their pedantry?
    Well, that's a first!

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