Posted on 05/16/2018 7:46:03 AM PDT by Magnatron
A woman purported to be the oldest living person ever at 128 says she hasn't lived a single happy day in her life and her longevity is "a punishment".
The Russian government claims Koku Istambulova is the world's oldest person.
But she has bluntly said her longevity "was God's will" and she "did nothing to make it happen".
While some people chalk it up to a healthy or active lifestyle, "tired" Koku said: "I have no idea how I lived until now."
Due to turn 129 in two weeks, she added: “I have not had a single happy day in my life."
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The claim was made by the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and is based on Koku's internal passport which shows her date of birth as 1 June 1889.
If correct, Koku - who shuns meat and loathes soups, but loves fermented milk - was already 27 when the last tsar, Nicholas II, was forced to abdicate in March 1917. She was 55 when the Second World War ended in 1945, and 102 when the Soviet Union collapsed a generation ago in 1991.
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A good day is when I wake up.
A great day is when I don’t deploy the airbags.
Yeah self driving cars can’t come soon enough!
“Dammit, my parents *told* me not to date a vampire!”
Your putting the man on the spot. A ‘historic’ hit?
Every once in a while God makes exceptions................
Come on Laz, you could be the one to give her the only happy moment she experiences in 128 years of living. ;)
When she was born, Benjamin Harrison was president, California had a Republican governor, a drought was turning western Nebraska into a dust bowl, the University of Southern California football team had only played four games, two of them against a local athletic club, and Hawaii was an independent kingdom.
Excellent point, Rennes Templar.
What is just as disturbing, is those who would like us to go down the road of the Soviet Union and Cuba generally ARE people who have “the good life” but don’t appreciate it and don’t want others to even have the CHANCE to appreciate it.
Like Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other uncounted Leftists.
She’s been in menopause for ~70 years.
No wonder she’s miserable.
From the czars to communism, and then the communism-lite that followed under perestroika?
Not that far fetched a claim I would imagine.
You could make a line of apparel to rival the ‘No Bad Days’ stuff.
‘No Happy Days’
Assuming she retired at 65, she’s been collecting her pension for nearly as long as she’s been retired.
So true... Very very true...
Please state the basis for the claim that 120 years is the maximum human life span.
Yes, her life, indeed, must have been miserable. I don’t know why people don’t realize that here.
Also an excellent point.
Honestly that's probably part of the secret to her longevity. Crazy good for you.
Indeed and they want everyone to feel the same way.
I’ve heard that Russians call happy people “white crows” and think of them as crazy.
her apparel line would be the burka
That was a reference to the number of years till the flood, not a hard and fast rule for individual longevity.
Now, if 120 was a common age for people to reach, no many days more, not much less barring accidents or wars, then we might be talking miracles.
There was a bloke in China who is supposed to have live well over two centuries.
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