A French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment celebrating her 121st birthday in 1997. Aged 122 years and 164 days at time of her death, she is both the human being with the longest confirmed lifespan and the only person to reach the age of 120 years.
A French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment celebrating her 121st birthday in 1997. Aged 122 years and 164 days at time of her death, she is both the human being with the longest confirmed lifespan and the only person to reach the age of 120 years.
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I hope I will live as long as Jeanne Calment. To do so I will adopt a vegetarian diet, start exercising 30 minutes every day, abstain from drinking Alcohol, doing drugs and smoking cigarettes and I will also go to a doctor every 2 years starting at 45. I am 20 years old and honestly I don’t want to die young. I hope I will live 100 years at least, assuming I don’t get Alzheimer.
But seeing so many people like Steve Jobs, Chadwick Boseman and Fredrik Andersson Hed die young from cancer, I am worried. But hopefully I won’t die before my 60s from cancer or heart attack.
Just image outliving your grandchildren, which wouldn’t have been unlikely in her case…
Damn… living 122 years like that must’ve had great genes.
Also, perhaps, a fraud.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-age-worlds-oldest-woman-180971153/
Fun fact about it: they are claims that such an age is so much unlikely that Jeanne Calment actually died at 34yo and it’d be her daughter who assumed her identity and lived on.
Imagine making it to 121 and someone gives you a birthday ‘cake’ of sugar numbers stuck into some cat food jelly. I’d probably die in protest tbh.
Death warmed up right there
There’s a discussion about her and some interesting stories on this weeks [no such thing as a fish podcast](https://overcast.fm/+LJPDUQcbQ/10:50)
She smoked most of her life as well. She quit at 117 years old because her sight was too bad to light the cigarette herself.
Bet she didn’t.
She almost lived half her life as retired.
I often think about te possibility that due to the advancement of medicine and healthcare, when people my age (30-40) get to 80-90, they won’t really die of old age anymore, or at least not as early as nowdays. So by the time I get to 90, people will live to (say) 120, then by the time I get to 120, people will live to 200 and so on. I’m sure this is the future, but I’m probably a bit too early to live to this. Not by much, maybe born 20 years too early.
10 years or so ago I heard on a seminar (about aging vs. genes) that the first human to live to 200 has probably already been born.
Apparently she met vincent van gogh when she was 13. Crazy
Every now and then I return to her story, and read her biography.
With 122+ years of age she truly is an outlier. I wonder, with the advancements in medicine, how long we have to wait for her record to get broken, so to say. Ofc I realize one ALSO has to have good genes for this.
What about that Mbah Gotho guy? Wouldn’t fit in r/europe, but still.
I still quote her statement on wrinkles. She was asked, how she feels about getting them, and she snapped: “ I have only one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it”
She was older than Hitler Stalni and Roosevelt.Imagine what she thought when this boy (Hitler) launched a war and invaded her country (France).
And yes she died in 1997 one year after google was launched in Stanford.
Not worth it.Living to 85 is the full deal, anything afterwards and you are a senile old grandpa that can not move by himself or take care of his bowel movements.