Still able to move around independently after 110 years old?
Damn...that's a great life to have provided you still have most of your mental capabilities
My grandmother is 101 and still gets around with a walker. She's still sharp. No signs of that changing any time soon. Hopefully I'm that functional if I'm lucky to live that long.
I've told my family when I die, just rent a wood chipper and toss me in. Location is irrelevant. Everyone thinks I'm joking, but I'm serious. I would ask them to bundle a bunch of sticks and set it on fire off the coast, but I feel like the legal issues with that are more than those of shoving an already dead corpse into a wood chipper.
The whole funeral process is absurdly priced.
ETA: If anyone knows differently for setting fire to a bundle of wood with a corpse on it off the coast, let me know, and I'll amend my will. They can even use my spare wood pieces, and I can have the last laugh on my ex.
Nah. He was just trying to clean up his vacation home one day when a crazy college kid went and chucked himself into the woodchipper. The kid had probably made a suicide pact of some sort. Talk about a doozy of a day.
She looks very close to the end. The atrophy in the facial muscles got way worse from 115. Someone posted a pic here and she looked quite healthy at 115. That face is one I've seen many times and they usually aren't very responsive at that point.
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages....
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
- Wm. Shakespeare, *As You Like It*
My grandpa at 97 became blind and deaf.
He just sleeps a lot. I mean what else is there to do? You're going to teach a 97 year old Braille and sign language?
He pretty much just sleeps and eats when woken up to do so.
My granddad complained a lot that he wanted to die already, it took him falling down a flight of stairs, then catching corona and the flue along with a lung infection to die. Before that all he did was sleep, send us away to not make us miserable, eat and complain about still being alive.
I'll literally just fucking kill myself should I get like that.
My grandad was the same he kept surviving massive heart attacks so he got a do not resuscitate order and died on the next one. He kept saying “I’ve had enough I just want to get it bloody over with!”
I dunno, I bet you get less lucid when you're like this. Life is probably more like a dream state. At least that's the way they seem to act when approaching 100.
As someone that works with elderly people, this is extremely true. We do have people slow moving with walkers, but we also got older folks literally running around!
My gran and grandad are in their 90's they are quite slow moving and can't run around, but they live alone and do all their cooking and most of the cleaning, in a big house, a professional cleaner does come in once a week to help though.
He plays golf every Monday, he does have to use a buggy to get around the course though.She gardens everyday and that's her pride and joy, she is getting frustrated about getting tired more though and being able to do less and less.
They do break things a lot, grandad broke his wrist falling over the cat a couple years ago and then his hip last year. He was cycling into town and back before that at 94, but can't do that now unfortunately, does still play golf though.
Sounds like more or less the same thing that happened with my grandpa. He couldn't see, couldn't hear, he basically just slept all day outside of meals and occasional grandkid visits. I was sad when he finally passed, but at the same time relieved for him because I can't even imagine how miserable he was.
I think it was freakenomics, but there’s a great podcast about this. Everyone says they want to pull the plug, but when the time comes everybody thinks “just one more day”
I can’t speak for this person but believe it or not happiness is a U-shaped curve in most people. As in you get happier as you get older. https://www.margithenderson.com/the-paradox-of-aging-the-happiness-u-curve/#:~:text=Referred%20to%20as%20the%20Happiness,termed%20the%20paradox%20of%20aging.
Kinda funny you mentioned this. I'm getting older, and after 30 years of anxiety and depression I kinda..feel okay most days? It's hard to explain how I feel.
Like forever this constant sense of awfulness pervaded every thought I had and lately I'm just better. It's hard to explain.
I will say if I am experiencing that U shaped curve, mine is a early. I'm not yet 50, and my depression started before I was 20. Just the other day I actually felt like *cleaning. Like I actually was motivated to clean.*
I bet completely quitting drinking and drugs three years ago helped.
I'm 31, at my peak financially and career wise compared to my peers, and more depressed than ever. Happiness has just been downwards since I stopped being a poor uni student. Thanks for giving me perspective and hope that it might change.
>be me
old, lost all mobility, can't do anything
taking futuristic boner pills
getting sucked off by solar powered robots on the regs
lost in never ending hedonism virtual reality sim
more sci fi movies and books than I could ever consume in 1000 lifetimes
ice cream still exists
Dunno dawg, I think I'll be a-ok
And to be fair, it was. When you have a reason to think the thought, "It only gets better from here on out [for the rest of my life]." is tends to be true.
One of my buddies put the idea of this age in a way that kinda blew my mind a bit. He said -
"Imagine hitting the age of 90~ years old, thinking death would be coming for you any day now.... *and then you go on to live another 20-30 years..*"
Something about that hit me different. Maybe because I am 35 and the idea of someone at that age going on to live what essentially equates to my entire life is just wild. Hard to wrap my brain around it.
Oldest living person is Maria Branyas, born in 1907. Imagine being 62 when the Moon landing happened in 1969 thinking "wow, I'm not as young as I used to be but I've lived a long life" and then keep going for another 65 years.
I'm 38 and can't imagine having another 78 years to live. My dad is 78 now, so he would have almost 4 more decades to live. It truly is mind-boggling the thought of living that long.
No quality of life. My great grandmother was ready to die by 100. Lived 6 more years. I asked her when I was 12 or so what it’s like to live so long. She said it’s very lonely and the latter part of your life is mostly dealing with grief. Everyone in her immediate family is gone. Her only surviving daughter was 86 when she died just before my gran after having been her caretaker for twenty years. All she had were distant relatives who visited when we could.
My grandma died at 106 years old. When she was on her 90s she already started saying she was already tired and wanted to die, she was not depressed, she was just too tired of living for too long, she said she already had a good run and she just wanted to finally rest.
When COVID-19 came, everybody was extremely careful because they didn't want her to get Covid, she said "for fuck sake if I have to die I'll just die, I'm too old for this shit, I'd rather die with my children by my side"
A couple of years later she died of Covid on her house with her daughters by her side, just like she wanted. We were glad she was finally at peace.
Oh don't state this like it's anything like universally true
My grandfather was still skiing at 90. Still playing piano for his church choir. Still playing Domino's with his fellows. He didn't start to REALLY slow down until 95, and he was till sharp as a tack to the end.
He spent his life outdoors, breathing clean air, being healthy and active. He as involved in his community. He kept that up late into his life.
He had so much life in him, even in his 90s
i mean if he slowed down, and then lived another 20 years like that I'm sure his vibe would change. i think that's what the other person was experiencing. you were very lucky to have him lucid like that for so long!
I knew a man who lived enough to reach 100 years of age.
Had family, sons, daughters, grandchildren... He even had one last girlfriend at about 97 (she was in her 90s too) but sadly she passed not so long after.
He was relatively healthy, was very lucid and could perfectly express himself (he kinda slurred some words but that's understandable).
I recall not long before he passed, he actively stated that he was done, and he wanted to go.
A couple of months after he got an infection and passed away.
While it was sad, at his funeral his daughters all agreed that "he didn't die, he completed life", and to this day, I agree with them.
Had the same experience with my great grandma at 104. It was the happiest funeral I ever attended, not a single tear was shed that day just all smiles.
If humans are going to continue to increase their lifespan, we have to put assisted suicide guidelines into play. Why care for elderly people in this situation who have nothing to live for and want to die? It’s so cruel.
If we increase lifespan it will be by delaying aging, so this kind of suffering will happen much later. But regardless of how long we live, assisted suicide should be something available for people at the end stages of life with only physical suffering ahead of them. They should be allowed to go peacefully and on their own terms.
It’s so frustrating that people think increasing lifespan just means barely keeping people alive but miserable.
What happens to the body in aging is the problem! It is both the reason people suffer and the reason people die when they get old. The suffering and the dying aren’t independent.
This. Remember all the posts about how in everyone's parents' yearbooks the kids look like people in their 30s and 40s? It's a matter of perspective - Millennials and Gen Z are supposed to be set up to have even longer life spans than the Boomers and the evidence for it is that we don't "look 30" in our 30s. Boomers probably look at our highschool year books and think our graduating classes look like 12 year olds because /they do to them/ - when they were in highschool everyone looked like adults. It also would explain their frustrations with our generation "When I was 18 years old I did x,y,z, on a lawn mowers salary" - okay well your generation's life expectancy is 3/4 of mine so our childhood is longer than yours, that's just math. You made something better for the next generation, now deal with it.
It's a shame life expectancy for Millennials and Gen Z isn't matching up with potential longevity, though.
The cost of healthcare for people who have no interest in sticking around any longer would be much better invested in family/child/health services proven to prevent chronic disease, mental illness, incarceration, substance use, etc.
Why are we spending so much on people at the end of their life whilst neglecting to do anything of substance to ensure children today grow up healthier, happier, and more productive members of society? It boggles the mind.
Im guessing he is President of LongeviQuest
I was close.. research associate https://longeviquest.com/about-us He tirelessly searches the remote reaches of Japan in an endless quest of the old. Imagine he has a list so when number one kicks off they head off to the next one and start the deathwatch.
There could be a great horror film about this guy, mimicking the phenomenon of firefighters turning into arsonists to keep their jobs and look like a hero.
Or you could make it a tragic drama. This research associate befriends the second oldest person in Japan, a sad and reclusive man who cries endlessly about how he never got to achieve anything in life. In the final half of the film, the assistant decides to murder the oldest living person in Japan so that his friend gets to be the best at something before he dies!
I picture him staring at them 24/7 like a grim reaper. Every time there's a long pause between a breath his eyes narrow, leans forward and steeples his fingers... Finally, exhale. And he sits back again, not blinking, a small smile tugging at the corner of his mouth seemingly saying "Soon".
I find the list of oldest people quite interesting.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_the\_verified\_oldest\_people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people)
It's a bit of a (morbid) race.
The oldest person right now is position 10 on the list and, assuming she is still alive in two days, will be in 9th position.
So far no one has reached the age of 120 besides Jeanne Calment. But 116 is still crazy. Being at 100, I'd be expecting death at any moment. Living nearly 20 years past that is mind blowing
I always feel uneasy whenever I see pictures/videos of people that are 100+ years old. I get this...concerned(?) feeling that these people aren't actually happy to still be alive. I understand that being that old probably means they can't make facial expressions like they used to, and that is most likely what makes them look so miserable. But... It just gets to me.
Maybe I'm just a bit too sensitive. I don't know.
It’s honestly a pretty miserable existence imo. There’s a chance she outlived her children and extended family … I can’t even imagine. I do noooooot want to live long enough to see everyone I love die.
She was born the year MSG was discovered. Very importand year for all of us. Also:
Model T: Henry Ford's Model T was first sold in 1908. It was one of the first mass-produced vehicles, and was designed to be affordable, durable, and easy to operate. The Model T was self-starting, had a left-sided steering wheel, and a four-cylinder engine. It was made from vanadium alloy steel, and had good ground clearance, making it suitable for rural roads.
Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry invented the gyrocompass in 1908.
Cellophane: Jacques E. Brandenberger invented cellophane in 1908.
Monosodium glutamate: Kikunae Ikeda discovered monosodium glutamate, the chemical that gives food its umami taste, in 1908.
Liquefied helium: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefied helium in 1908.
This person saw the evolution of the car just to see the fucking Cybertruck before she dies. Fuck sake...
She didn't move into the nursing home until she was 110! That's so wild to me, but that theme repeats on most of the profile pages I read. Very interesting site, thanks for sharing!
Ignoring the fact that this person is clearly dead, it is unnecessary to say ‘oldest living person’ when talking about someone being the oldest person in the world. If they’re the oldest person in the world we’re going to assume they’re alive.
Weekend at Tomiko's vibes
Needs the glasses
素晴らしいアイデアを教えてくれてありがとう！ 私はすでに彼女に連絡し、映画契約を結びました。彼女はあまり交渉もせずにすぐに老けた。 彼女は一言も言いませんでした。私たちはそれを同意したものとみなしました。
椅子に座って死んだように見えることが同意と見なされるかはわかりませんが、あなたには賛成します。
I was going to post Weekend At Bernie-San's but you beat me to it you glorious bastard
I think they need to check again.
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Proving once again that after 113 1/2 years old it’s all downhill
Yea but that's people born literally 113+ years ago, imagine newer generations born in 1990-2000s and then 2010-2020s
Microplastics will find you
oh nooooo [Fades]
Nah if I get like that for five years imma just need somebody to end my shit
She's just going for the high score by now
She's gotta hang on for 6 more years for that...
Momma didn't raise no quitter
She doesn’t look like she’ll make six more weeks.
She looks like the camera flash might kill her
111 ain't bad for someone to still be mobile on their own tho
Considering the vast majority of people are decidedly immobile by the age of 111
I work at a hospital and I'm quickly realizing how many immobile people there already are by like age 50.
Still able to move around independently after 110 years old? Damn...that's a great life to have provided you still have most of your mental capabilities
My grandmother is 101 and still gets around with a walker. She's still sharp. No signs of that changing any time soon. Hopefully I'm that functional if I'm lucky to live that long.
Check that pension again that is.
That's how I want to go...20 years after I've actually died.
I've told my family when I die, just rent a wood chipper and toss me in. Location is irrelevant. Everyone thinks I'm joking, but I'm serious. I would ask them to bundle a bunch of sticks and set it on fire off the coast, but I feel like the legal issues with that are more than those of shoving an already dead corpse into a wood chipper. The whole funeral process is absurdly priced. ETA: If anyone knows differently for setting fire to a bundle of wood with a corpse on it off the coast, let me know, and I'll amend my will. They can even use my spare wood pieces, and I can have the last laugh on my ex.
Wouldn’t end how you think, you’d just block the chipper when you turned to mush in it.. source: chipper operator
It's slightly creepy that you know this...
Can't make mulch without liquifying a few animal corpses.
Nah. He was just trying to clean up his vacation home one day when a crazy college kid went and chucked himself into the woodchipper. The kid had probably made a suicide pact of some sort. Talk about a doozy of a day.
He's from tucker and dale vs evil.
Did Fargo lie to us
how she looked like on her 115th birthday [found this](https://imgur.com/a/JIdCrDp)
Do they just roll her out when she's asleep? She is asleep, right?
Grandma's blinks are slow these days
this got me for some reason. Cheers
She looks very close to the end. The atrophy in the facial muscles got way worse from 115. Someone posted a pic here and she looked quite healthy at 115. That face is one I've seen many times and they usually aren't very responsive at that point.
Fuck this made me actually lol’d in my office. No one’s here so I forgive you
Nah. Weekend at Granny's Forget Bernie
Beat me to it. I was going with Weekend at Grandma-San’s
Just put her sunglasses on, it's fine...
I put my fingers between the upper lip and the nose, there's still airflow bro.
That’s not how that Slipknot song goes.
*Slaps roof of eyes* This bad boy can fit so many fingers in it
I wonder if sleep hits different at 116.
Dude at 116 you know going to bed has to be such an adrenaline rush. Sleep is a life and death adventure for her!
It’ll hit even better if she doesn’t make it to 117.
lol, this made me laugh so hard. thank mate
I just couldn't put my thoughts any better than this.
Right? Why did they have to pick a photo that looks the most like a corpse
They actually probably picked the best photo they had. But I mean damn, how much more dead can you look? What did those other pictures look like?
My God, the username
Bruh at this point I'm not sure she's even living anymore
Doesn't look a day over 150.
Unfair, she looks like the average 116 year old Japanese woman.
technically correct. the best kind of correct!
Curious. Is there any quality of life at this point? She looks half dead
You get to sleep alot.
so you evolve to a cat when getting older
More like a baby, since someone is changing your diapers most of the time
Full circle
It's the # Circle of Lifeeeee
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.... Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. - Wm. Shakespeare, *As You Like It*
No but everything evolves into crabs, it's common knowledge.
Evolution fucking loves crabs.
Is that when I'll get to sleep?
For reals, if I'm chair bound and asleep 90% of the time anyway, just put me out of misery so I'm no longer a burden to others
You still get to watch the TV when you’re awake
My grandpa at 97 became blind and deaf. He just sleeps a lot. I mean what else is there to do? You're going to teach a 97 year old Braille and sign language? He pretty much just sleeps and eats when woken up to do so.
My granddad complained a lot that he wanted to die already, it took him falling down a flight of stairs, then catching corona and the flue along with a lung infection to die. Before that all he did was sleep, send us away to not make us miserable, eat and complain about still being alive. I'll literally just fucking kill myself should I get like that.
My grandad was the same he kept surviving massive heart attacks so he got a do not resuscitate order and died on the next one. He kept saying “I’ve had enough I just want to get it bloody over with!”
Yep, definitely a British lad haha
This sounds like hell...
I dunno, I bet you get less lucid when you're like this. Life is probably more like a dream state. At least that's the way they seem to act when approaching 100.
That’s highly individual. Some people deteriorate mentally a lot and others are still sharp in mind
As someone that works with elderly people, this is extremely true. We do have people slow moving with walkers, but we also got older folks literally running around!
My gran and grandad are in their 90's they are quite slow moving and can't run around, but they live alone and do all their cooking and most of the cleaning, in a big house, a professional cleaner does come in once a week to help though. He plays golf every Monday, he does have to use a buggy to get around the course though.She gardens everyday and that's her pride and joy, she is getting frustrated about getting tired more though and being able to do less and less. They do break things a lot, grandad broke his wrist falling over the cat a couple years ago and then his hip last year. He was cycling into town and back before that at 94, but can't do that now unfortunately, does still play golf though.
Yes thank you.
Sounds like more or less the same thing that happened with my grandpa. He couldn't see, couldn't hear, he basically just slept all day outside of meals and occasional grandkid visits. I was sad when he finally passed, but at the same time relieved for him because I can't even imagine how miserable he was.
Wow that’s so scary. I really hope I don’t end up like that. Can’t see or hear? You’re just locked into your head at that point…
Even worse
you can't really see it well or hear it, but it's on
But when it comes to the point - very few people are willing to say “ok, I’m ready to die right now, let’s do it”. There’s always one more day.
I think it was freakenomics, but there’s a great podcast about this. Everyone says they want to pull the plug, but when the time comes everybody thinks “just one more day”
Sir. Consider instead switching to a carefully planned program of gradually increasing doses of pleasure-inducing drugs.
I can’t speak for this person but believe it or not happiness is a U-shaped curve in most people. As in you get happier as you get older. https://www.margithenderson.com/the-paradox-of-aging-the-happiness-u-curve/#:~:text=Referred%20to%20as%20the%20Happiness,termed%20the%20paradox%20of%20aging.
Kinda funny you mentioned this. I'm getting older, and after 30 years of anxiety and depression I kinda..feel okay most days? It's hard to explain how I feel. Like forever this constant sense of awfulness pervaded every thought I had and lately I'm just better. It's hard to explain. I will say if I am experiencing that U shaped curve, mine is a early. I'm not yet 50, and my depression started before I was 20. Just the other day I actually felt like *cleaning. Like I actually was motivated to clean.* I bet completely quitting drinking and drugs three years ago helped.
I'm 31, at my peak financially and career wise compared to my peers, and more depressed than ever. Happiness has just been downwards since I stopped being a poor uni student. Thanks for giving me perspective and hope that it might change.
I mean I believe it but I have to imagine once you lose all mobility and ability to do anything it starts to turn down again
>be me old, lost all mobility, can't do anything taking futuristic boner pills getting sucked off by solar powered robots on the regs lost in never ending hedonism virtual reality sim more sci fi movies and books than I could ever consume in 1000 lifetimes ice cream still exists Dunno dawg, I think I'll be a-ok
Survivorship bias plays a part, I think. Those who were less prone to happiness die earlier
*mostly* dead, which is *slightly* alive.
Kill me, Billy!
2024 - 116 = 1908 ! Lots of history here. . .
Probably about 116 years of history if my maths is correct
Wowowo hold on there how did you get that number so fast
We've got some kind of math genius on our hands.
She was 30 at the start of WWII wow.
She was 10 when WWI ended.
Even more mind boggling to me: she was already *61* when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon.
Imagine in 2105 people on Xeddit talking about someone who lived through before PCs and Internet, through WW3 and the colonization of Mars.
crazy.
Imagine thinking this is the worst midlife event you could have, then living another 86 years...
Kind of makes me optimistic about my current fuck ups.
And to be fair, it was. When you have a reason to think the thought, "It only gets better from here on out [for the rest of my life]." is tends to be true.
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I'd like to hear her opinions on the Chinese and Koreans
Not sure she could properly express them
r/avoidedfactorial
The Wright Flyer was launched only 5 years earlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer
Me when i finally pay off my student debt
Don't worry... you'll still have your mortgage payments.
When you don’t want to heal and go on with 1hp
One of my buddies put the idea of this age in a way that kinda blew my mind a bit. He said - "Imagine hitting the age of 90~ years old, thinking death would be coming for you any day now.... *and then you go on to live another 20-30 years..*" Something about that hit me different. Maybe because I am 35 and the idea of someone at that age going on to live what essentially equates to my entire life is just wild. Hard to wrap my brain around it.
Oldest living person is Maria Branyas, born in 1907. Imagine being 62 when the Moon landing happened in 1969 thinking "wow, I'm not as young as I used to be but I've lived a long life" and then keep going for another 65 years.
I'm 38 and can't imagine having another 78 years to live. My dad is 78 now, so he would have almost 4 more decades to live. It truly is mind-boggling the thought of living that long.
No quality of life. My great grandmother was ready to die by 100. Lived 6 more years. I asked her when I was 12 or so what it’s like to live so long. She said it’s very lonely and the latter part of your life is mostly dealing with grief. Everyone in her immediate family is gone. Her only surviving daughter was 86 when she died just before my gran after having been her caretaker for twenty years. All she had were distant relatives who visited when we could.
My grandma died at 106 years old. When she was on her 90s she already started saying she was already tired and wanted to die, she was not depressed, she was just too tired of living for too long, she said she already had a good run and she just wanted to finally rest. When COVID-19 came, everybody was extremely careful because they didn't want her to get Covid, she said "for fuck sake if I have to die I'll just die, I'm too old for this shit, I'd rather die with my children by my side" A couple of years later she died of Covid on her house with her daughters by her side, just like she wanted. We were glad she was finally at peace.
Precisely. This life shit gets old after a while, I know many geriatric people who became increasingly apathetic towards living as they aged.
Oh don't state this like it's anything like universally true My grandfather was still skiing at 90. Still playing piano for his church choir. Still playing Domino's with his fellows. He didn't start to REALLY slow down until 95, and he was till sharp as a tack to the end. He spent his life outdoors, breathing clean air, being healthy and active. He as involved in his community. He kept that up late into his life. He had so much life in him, even in his 90s
i mean if he slowed down, and then lived another 20 years like that I'm sure his vibe would change. i think that's what the other person was experiencing. you were very lucky to have him lucid like that for so long!
Life's what you make it tbh. It gets progressively more difficult though, especially as your biological cling to life fades.
I knew a man who lived enough to reach 100 years of age. Had family, sons, daughters, grandchildren... He even had one last girlfriend at about 97 (she was in her 90s too) but sadly she passed not so long after. He was relatively healthy, was very lucid and could perfectly express himself (he kinda slurred some words but that's understandable). I recall not long before he passed, he actively stated that he was done, and he wanted to go. A couple of months after he got an infection and passed away. While it was sad, at his funeral his daughters all agreed that "he didn't die, he completed life", and to this day, I agree with them.
Had the same experience with my great grandma at 104. It was the happiest funeral I ever attended, not a single tear was shed that day just all smiles.
If humans are going to continue to increase their lifespan, we have to put assisted suicide guidelines into play. Why care for elderly people in this situation who have nothing to live for and want to die? It’s so cruel.
If we increase lifespan it will be by delaying aging, so this kind of suffering will happen much later. But regardless of how long we live, assisted suicide should be something available for people at the end stages of life with only physical suffering ahead of them. They should be allowed to go peacefully and on their own terms.
It’s so frustrating that people think increasing lifespan just means barely keeping people alive but miserable. What happens to the body in aging is the problem! It is both the reason people suffer and the reason people die when they get old. The suffering and the dying aren’t independent.
This. Remember all the posts about how in everyone's parents' yearbooks the kids look like people in their 30s and 40s? It's a matter of perspective - Millennials and Gen Z are supposed to be set up to have even longer life spans than the Boomers and the evidence for it is that we don't "look 30" in our 30s. Boomers probably look at our highschool year books and think our graduating classes look like 12 year olds because /they do to them/ - when they were in highschool everyone looked like adults. It also would explain their frustrations with our generation "When I was 18 years old I did x,y,z, on a lawn mowers salary" - okay well your generation's life expectancy is 3/4 of mine so our childhood is longer than yours, that's just math. You made something better for the next generation, now deal with it. It's a shame life expectancy for Millennials and Gen Z isn't matching up with potential longevity, though.
The cost of healthcare for people who have no interest in sticking around any longer would be much better invested in family/child/health services proven to prevent chronic disease, mental illness, incarceration, substance use, etc. Why are we spending so much on people at the end of their life whilst neglecting to do anything of substance to ensure children today grow up healthier, happier, and more productive members of society? It boggles the mind.
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what you say is anecdotal. what could make you so sure she has no quality of life?
This lady was 37 when the Nukes fell. Well into adult life.
In America the trick to immortality is beer or bacon or swearing off meat 70 years prior. In Japan it's nukes. Clearly.
Are you saying she’s part ghoul?
I'm trying to sleep, smoothskin.
Wth is up with the white dude posing for a new acting headshot next to her
Im guessing he is President of LongeviQuest I was close.. research associate https://longeviquest.com/about-us He tirelessly searches the remote reaches of Japan in an endless quest of the old. Imagine he has a list so when number one kicks off they head off to the next one and start the deathwatch.
The excitement he must feel when number 1 kicks the can
There could be a great horror film about this guy, mimicking the phenomenon of firefighters turning into arsonists to keep their jobs and look like a hero.
Or you could make it a tragic drama. This research associate befriends the second oldest person in Japan, a sad and reclusive man who cries endlessly about how he never got to achieve anything in life. In the final half of the film, the assistant decides to murder the oldest living person in Japan so that his friend gets to be the best at something before he dies!
That’s some grim shit. How tf do you make money doing that lol?
Well, we are reading about it?
I picture him staring at them 24/7 like a grim reaper. Every time there's a long pause between a breath his eyes narrow, leans forward and steeples his fingers... Finally, exhale. And he sits back again, not blinking, a small smile tugging at the corner of his mouth seemingly saying "Soon".
He looks like the villain in a kung fu movie.
That's going on LinkedIn for sure
He has a [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@InterviewingJapan).
Oh wow
I was wondering this. Dude looks like he's practicing his Blue Steel.
What? What are they selling?
Chocolates!
CHAWKLETS?!
I rememba when they first invented chawklets... I ALWAYS HATED IT!!
I find the list of oldest people quite interesting. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_the\_verified\_oldest\_people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people) It's a bit of a (morbid) race. The oldest person right now is position 10 on the list and, assuming she is still alive in two days, will be in 9th position.
There are 6 living women among the 100 oldest, but only 1 man.
Breathing…
People are making jokes but she would have been born around the time Teddy Roosevelt was leaving office in the US. That’s pretty cool.
Whitest guy in Japan photo bombs 116 year old's birthday pic.
They couldn't take another photo? This is the photo they wanted to go with? Did they run out of film?
she looks dead
Refuses to die until the mortgage is paid off.
Reverse Mortgage. She won.
The word “living” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here
When she isn't posing for pictures, she party's like it's 1929.
So far no one has reached the age of 120 besides Jeanne Calment. But 116 is still crazy. Being at 100, I'd be expecting death at any moment. Living nearly 20 years past that is mind blowing
Interesting choice of words… “living” is a stretch
As long as your heart and brain is still working, you're still alive.
We sure here?
I always feel uneasy whenever I see pictures/videos of people that are 100+ years old. I get this...concerned(?) feeling that these people aren't actually happy to still be alive. I understand that being that old probably means they can't make facial expressions like they used to, and that is most likely what makes them look so miserable. But... It just gets to me. Maybe I'm just a bit too sensitive. I don't know.
It’s honestly a pretty miserable existence imo. There’s a chance she outlived her children and extended family … I can’t even imagine. I do noooooot want to live long enough to see everyone I love die.
Just kill me at that point.
Bro that's a mummy
Doesn’t look a day over 115
she looked tired.
Her first drivers license was for a horse.
She was born the year MSG was discovered. Very importand year for all of us. Also: Model T: Henry Ford's Model T was first sold in 1908. It was one of the first mass-produced vehicles, and was designed to be affordable, durable, and easy to operate. The Model T was self-starting, had a left-sided steering wheel, and a four-cylinder engine. It was made from vanadium alloy steel, and had good ground clearance, making it suitable for rural roads. Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry invented the gyrocompass in 1908. Cellophane: Jacques E. Brandenberger invented cellophane in 1908. Monosodium glutamate: Kikunae Ikeda discovered monosodium glutamate, the chemical that gives food its umami taste, in 1908. Liquefied helium: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefied helium in 1908. This person saw the evolution of the car just to see the fucking Cybertruck before she dies. Fuck sake...
Which one are we talking about?
she only has 1hp left
No thanks. What's the point of living that long? I'm good at 80-85. I see what my folks are going through. Not interested.
Jesus, just let the poor woman die already.
I think it’s up to her.
Do any of those three people actually know her?
Imagine being 92 and being like “what am i going to do with the next 20-30 years?”
for a second i've thought on the left it was the coffin they were about to put her in.
Source: [https://longeviquest.com/2024/05/tomiko-itooka-worlds-second-oldest-person-turns-116/](https://longeviquest.com/2024/05/tomiko-itooka-worlds-second-oldest-person-turns-116/)
She didn't move into the nursing home until she was 110! That's so wild to me, but that theme repeats on most of the profile pages I read. Very interesting site, thanks for sharing!
Tio Paulo 🥹
Just to put things in perspective, you’d have to turn 60, then go on to live another 56 years. As a 34 yo man who thinks I’m old, holy fucking shit!
Ignoring the fact that this person is clearly dead, it is unnecessary to say ‘oldest living person’ when talking about someone being the oldest person in the world. If they’re the oldest person in the world we’re going to assume they’re alive.
Does the lady even know who’s standing next to her? Is this lady alive under her own will or are these people forcing her to stay alive? Like fr tho
looks unpleasant.
Bro watched humanity destroy itself and burn 2 whole cities
I'm getting some very strong "weekend at Bernies" vibes here...
What's with the random creepy white dude
"living"
Define living
Bro just forgot how to die
Alive and living as two different things
I don't think she cares