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World’s oldest person dies in Japan
msnbc ^
| 10/31/03
Posted on 10/31/2003 8:32:34 AM PST by knak
TOKYO, Oct 31 — The oldest person in the world, Kamato Hongo, died on Friday aged 116, a spokesman for a hospital in southern Japan said. She had been in hospital in the city of Kagoshima, 620 miles southwest of Tokyo, for several weeks, according to a relative.
BORN IN 1887, when Japan was gradually opening up to the world after more than two centuries of isolation, Hongo was known for her love of “dancing” by waving her hands and for sleeping two days and then staying awake for the next two. She celebrated her 116th birthday last month.
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posted on
10/31/2003 8:32:34 AM PST
by
knak
To: knak
Not true! The world's oldest person died last month.
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posted on
10/31/2003 8:33:45 AM PST
by
PMCarey
To: knak
I notice this headline appears quite frequently - is this a trend here or something. It doesn't seem to pay to be the world's oldest person.
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posted on
10/31/2003 8:34:17 AM PST
by
Humvee
To: PMCarey
Not true! The world's oldest person died last month. Well then, he/she was no longer the world's oldest person.
To: Humvee
Hongo’s death comes a month after the world’s oldest man, Yukichi Chuganji, passed away at his home on the same Japanese island aged 114.
To: knak
Amazing! In the photo accompanying the original story on MSNBC, she doesn't look a day over 105!
To: knak
Everytime somebody gets to be the oldest person, they end up dying. Damn! All that living for such a brief, shining moment of glory at the very tip-top of the food chain.
I'm curious about the 2-days of sleeping and 2-days of staying awake. I wonder if that tricked the body into living longer. Maybe our aging process is triggered by the number of times we sleep. Something to look into.
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posted on
10/31/2003 8:47:30 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(202.4 (-97.6) Homestretch to 200)
To: SamAdams76
I wonder if that tricked the body into living longer.So her body thought she was 58 when she died? Seems kinda young. :-)
To: SamAdams76
116?
She slept 2 days, then was awake 2 days...
116 year divided by 2 awake days = 58 "awake" years...
???
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posted on
10/31/2003 8:51:36 AM PST
by
CHATTAB
To: CHATTAB
She was embalmed in Kikkoman.
To: My back yard
There's a serial killer knocking off the oldest people in the world!!! ;)
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posted on
10/31/2003 9:58:52 AM PST
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Vietnam was, in truth, a noble cause." - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: knak
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:05:32 PM PST
by
nospinzone
(What does it say on the bottom of Coke bottles at DU? It says "Open Other End.")
To: SamAdams76
She was fortunate that her guardian wasn't Michael Schiavo.
To: knak
It's Bush's fault.
To: PMCarey; Always Right
Hongo’s death comes a month after the world’s oldest man, Yukichi Chuganji, passed away at his home on the same Japanese island aged 114.
To: knak
Why live the oldest people always in Japan? Maybe I should try more fish and Japanese water?
To: knak
She got her time in and then some. I hope she enjoyed life.
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:34:23 PM PST
by
LibKill
(We OWE our fighting men everything that we have.)
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