Posted on 08/13/2007 7:07:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TOKYO (AFP) - The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman who counted eating well and getting rest as her hobbies, died Monday at age 114, a news report said.
Yone Minagawa, a widow who lived in a nursing home but was still sprightly late in life, died "of old age" Monday evening, Kyodo News reported.
There was no immediate answer to a telephone call placed to city hall in her town in southern Fukuoka prefecture.
Born on January 4, 1893, Minagawa was already in her 50s when Japan surrendered in World War II.
She had been certified as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records after Emma Faust Tillman, the daughter of freed American slaves, died in January.
Despite her advanced age, Minagawa was said to enjoy eating sweets and counted eating well and getting a good night's sleep as the secrets of her longevity.
Her nursing home said Minagawa had celebrated becoming the world's oldest person earlier this year with a Western-style lunch of bread, stew, salad and a dessert.
Japanese women are the world's oldest living people, in what experts attribute to a traditionally healthy diet and high standard of medical care.
Their life expectancy was a record 85.81 years in 2006, according to the government.
Japanese men are the world's second oldest with a life expectancy of 78.8 second only to men in Iceland who on average live to be 79.4.
Yone Minagawa receives the certificate identified as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records at Fukuchi town in Fukuoka Prefecture (State), southwestern Japan in July, 2007. Minagawa died at a nursing home in southwestern Japan, a home official said Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. She was 114. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
Seems like the world’s oldest person is always dying. What gives?
Those are my very same hobbies!
Have you ever noticed the mortality rate of being the worlds oldest person. Really, it seems like there’s a new one every two weeks.
Man, being named the worlds oldest person is like having the death cat take a nap on your lap.
Then, there is the possibility that the world’s second oldest person has been killing the world’s oldest persons to become himself (herself?) the world oldest person! Whadya think, Watson?
Here in Illinois we have people much older than that who still vote.....Always democrat.
RIP.
One time ya don’t want to hear those words,,
Next!
Illinois we have people much older than that who still vote.
You guys have some real patriotic Civil War vets that vote Democratic in every election. Does William Daley have a lot to do with these vets getting to the polls and voting?
"We're live with the youngest newborn here, whoops, there's another..."
Who’s next in line?
Notice that the past several recordholders have all been 114 or 115. That seems to be a current natural time limit.
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