World's oldest person dies at 115

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: BBC

A Portuguese woman who held the title of oldest living person for just five weeks has died at the age of 115.

Maria de Jesus died on 2 January, 2009. One of her six children told a Portugal news agency that her mother never "fell ill, nor took any medication".

Mrs de Jesus had topped the table of people aged 110 or older collated by the Gerontology Research Group after Edna Parker died on 26 November, 2008.

American Gertrude Baines, born 6 April, 1894, is now the oldest living person


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[Idealism]

1. Five weeks? Isn't that a record for this type of thing...

[.... callchet ....]

2. The

world's oldest person is still alive.

[bertman]

4. Yes, indeed. And eyeball to eyeball with the Grim Reaper.

[Uncle Joe]

15. I would imagine after 110 ten years, the Reaper doesn't look so grim anymore,

he's just whispering in your ear, "give it a rest".

[silverojo]

18. Posts like these are as sickening as gay-bashing

Making fun of the elderly...real class. The Grim Reaper can take you at any age, you know....

[Uncle Joe]

19. I'm not making fun of the elderly,

I'm stating that, I believe after 110 years most people wouldn't view death as a grim reality, it's as natural as being born.

I never said the Grim Reaper couldn't take you at any age.

[Canuckistanian]

7. "The world's oldest person is still alive"

Pretty hard to dispute.

[meow2u3]

14. DUzy award nominee!

:rofl:

[pansypoo53219]

3. she was so young.

damned shame.

[Vinca]

5. "nor took any medication" - hear that you blood-sucking drug companies?

A person doesn't need your lousy $3.00 a pill statin drug to become a serious geezer.

[bertman]

17. or any book larnin' either, for that matter.

[Kip Humphrey]

6. Wow, the oldest person keeps dying. What's with these "oldest persons" anyway?

[percussivemadness]

8. wow, what that woman lived through...amazing

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. she was two months younger than Jack Benny and Norman Rockwell

i looked it up.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. FDR was 12 when she was born

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. SHE was 23 when JFK was born

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. Ulysses S. Grant died the year after she was born

[THUNDER HANDS]

13. 115 years before she was born the U.S.A was 3 years old

[ikojo]

16. At least SHE was alive when the Chicago

Cubs last won the World Series. There are few who can say that.