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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Good question.
Very good question.
“...abstemious.”
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Zoikes!
I think she was impunitious. That’s why she lived so long.
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.
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Then you got a few outliers like me, who has mainly sat on his retired dead ass for the past 23 years and enjoyed it too.
It was just months ago that I predicted this would happen to her.
FTA: survived COVID-19 without even realizing she’d been infected
Because the chinese virus was the flu.
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