Posted on 01/18/2023 10:43:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person but had been reportedly growing weary of the burdens of age has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.
Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904, and lived through the two world wars. As a little girl she was astonished by her first contact with electric lighting at school and, more recently, survived COVID-19 without even realizing she’d been infected.
Spokesman David Tavella said she died at 2 a.m. on Tuesday at the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home in the southern port city of Toulon.
The Gerontology Research Group, which validates details of people thought to be 110 or older, listed her as the oldest known person in the world after the death of Japan’s Kane Tanaka, aged 119, last year. […]
Asked about her exceptional longevity after surviving two world wars, she told French media in April that “working … makes you live. I worked until I was 108.” …
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I remember her from last year. The blind nun that Covid didn’t kill…
RIP
She was born 19 days before my grandmother.
RIP
Do we know her vaxx status?
I worked until I was 108.” …
That may become the norm.
A lot of people I worked with died a year after they retired so there might be some truth in what the Nun said.
Though they weren’t exactly health nuts to begin with
The good sister was 118 years young.....
I was wondering that myself.
Always seems like whenever the world’s oldest lady passes away, she’s a Frenchwoman who swore by her diet of wine, butter and cigarettes. But perhaps this nun was a bit more abstemious.
RIP.
Is there a title for World’s Youngest person?
“We got one here Mr. Guiness in India! Whoops, here another birth in China...”
Yes, there were a lot nuns at Verdun, Tobruk, D-Day.... /s
Yep maybe working helps prople keep going . Maybe idle retirement hastens the end for some.
It is good to have a reason to get up in the morning. Ive known some who are very active in retirement, and maybe that’s what helps them in retirement.
It’s pretty dangerous being the oldest person in the world. Nobody seems to last very long in that situation.
This seems to be happening a lot more lately. I bet if she wasn’t vaccinated, she would have made it to 120.
Died Suddenly.
/s
If any award says “Get your affairs in order”, it’s this one.
It just doesn’t pay to become the oldest person. They always die soon after.
Low stress job, no kids or husband, meditation/prayer daily…
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