Being The Worlds Oldest Person

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Being the Worlds Oldest Person. I'd HATE to have this honour. Watching your friends and family pop their clogs round about you? Nobody else remembering the music you listened to and the programmes you watched?
Drooling uselessly in a chair?
Not being able to remember the names of your multitudes of great-great-great grandchildren?
Where are the perks???

― Rumps (Rumps), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

All these oldest persons ever do to get in the news is die :-/

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Unless they appear in movies doing rapping.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Mrs Bolden had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren.

Did she die after eating the 560 boxes of chocolates she received for her birthday?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/EBolden.jpg

Being visited by her 74 year old grandson!

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

You get to feel pretty smug/solipsistic.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if I could put up with those jerks from the Guinness Book of Records ringing up every week asking, "you still alive, then?"

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Things that happened the year she was born:

- Van Gogh shoots himself
- First electric chair execution
- First country cricket match
- Forth Bridge opens.

I hope I live till I'm 116.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

you'll get to start a thread called "trickle down politics" and talk about incontinence.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

As the grandson of the world's 71st-oldest person, I'll pass on living that long myself, thanks. On the upside, she was able to work (nursing) until her late 90s, but the decline is long and wearing on the kids and grandkids.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

My mother used to nurse Jessie Smith (one of the world's oldest) who died in 1998 aged 110 or so. She used to point at pictures of the Queen Mother and say "It's the Queen!" and also used to hold a toy soldier close to her calling it "my little boy" (no one knows why). All but one of her four children had died of old age, and apparently by the end of her years she was barely able to hear, talk, or even eat. I'd rather choose a death with my immediate family around me rather than be alienated both culturally and physically.

She *did* love Scooby Doo though.

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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