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« on: Aug 17th, 2007, 10:29am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/14/asia/AS-GEN-Japan-Obit-Oldest- Person.php
 
 World's oldest person, Yone Minagawa, dies at age 114
 
The Associated Press
Monday, August 13, 2007
 
TOKYO: Yone Minagawa, a candy-loving great-great grandmother who became the world's oldest person earlier this year, has died at a nursing home in southwestern Japan, an official said Tuesday. She was 114.
 
Minagawa, who raised four sons and a daughter on her own by peddling flowers and vegetables, died Monday afternoon, said Toshiro Tachibana, an official at the nursing home in the former mining town of Fukuchi.
 
The attending physician said Minagawa died of old age.
 
"Her appetite had been declining recently and her energy fading, so the family had asked us to make her as comfortable as possible. The death was not sudden," Tachibana said.
 
Born on Jan. 4, 1893, Minagawa was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest person in January following the death of Emma Faust Tillman, also 114, in the United States.
 
Minagawa outlived all of her children except her daughter, and she had seven grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, according to the nursing home.
 
Minagawa usually spent her days at the home resting, but seldom missed a weekly recreational sing-along, staff at the home said earlier this year. She had a sweet tooth and was particularly fond of Japanese cakes filled with sweet bean paste.
 
The world's oldest person is now 114-year-old Edna Parker of Shelbyville in the U.S. state of Indiana, who was born on April 20, 1893, according to Guinness records.
 
Japan has one of the world's longest average life spans — a factor often attributed to a healthy diet rich in fish and rice.
 
The world's oldest man is also Japanese — Tomoji Tanabe, 111, born on Sept. 18, 1895. Tanabe lives in the southern city of Miyazaki, according to Guinness World Records.
 
In 2006, Japanese women set a new record for life expectancy at 85.81 years, while men live an average of about 79 years.
 
The number of Japanese living beyond 100 has almost quadrupled in the past 10 years and is soon expected to surpass 28,000, the government announced last September.
 
There are more active centenarians than before, and the rapidly graying population is adding to concerns over Japan's overburdened public pension system.
 
Fukuchi is about 840 kilometers (520 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
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« Reply #1 on: Aug 17th, 2007, 10:51pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
RIP x x  Kiss
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On a happier note...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Tomoji Tanabe!  You're now 112.  Wink
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Not many...
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on Aug 19th, 2007, 2:33pm, TAR 4 life wrote:
I wonder how many people born before the 20th century are still alive...

Maybe you should ask Scribe.  He might still know a few of his cribmates. Wink
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wow! i thnought the oldest person was 117.
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on Aug 26th, 2007, 8:30pm, sportsperson624 wrote:
u misspelled thought

Great.  Undecided  The spelling police are here.
 
(BTW, you misspelled you.)
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i would want to live that long
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Long live to simpsons brothers.
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Wow. Just, wow. Shocked
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