[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m always saddened when the world’s oldest person dies because we no longer have a world’s oldest person. It’s the end of a long chain of history.

[Ditter]

huh? You are joking right?

When the oldest person dies then the 2nd oldest is now the oldest. I know you knew that :)

In about 1996 when my great aunt died she was almost 116 and the oldest person in the US.

[Ezekiel]

Mr Kimura, from Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture, was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person in December 2012 when a woman from the United States died at the age of 115.

They need to stop jinxing these people. The poor souls get designated as the "world's oldest living person", and sure enough within months they drop dead!