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Ice@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died

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Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died

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Ice@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died.
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  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I will now every time I see an article about people this old, post this article: https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

    Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Thanks for sharing

    • Ice@lemmy.worldOP
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      Certainly interesting. It’ll be curious to see whether our 100+ year olds globally start decreasing in number at some point, due to improved abilities to check.

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    Damn.

    She was 66 years old 50 years ago.

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      Not just that. Think of the shit she’s lived through born in 1908. WWII meant firebombings, literal fallout from nuclear attacks, post war recovery and things like industrial poisonings (ie: minimata bay disease)… that’s just off the top of my head.

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        Yeah, and she was a full-fledged adult in her 30s onward to these things, not like a 4-year-old who wasn’t aware of what was going on around them.

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      She was married for 50 years and was a widow for almost the same amount of time.

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        She also had 4 children, and only 2 are still alive. Just says they had them in her 20s, so even those 2 kids have to be in their 80s now.

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    This had me look and see the current list of oldest people and wiki has a top 50 list. The craziest thing about the list? Only 1 male on the entire list, and he is number 49th!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people

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    Rest in peace.

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