World’s oldest person dies in Ecuador at 116

[Jimcs50]

World’s oldest person dies in Ecuador at 116
Woman was born in the same year as Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler
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QUITO, Ecuador - Maria Esther de Capovilla, a 116-year-old woman believed to have been the world’s oldest person, has died in her native Ecuador, her granddaughter said Monday. Her successor is likely a woman from Tennessee.

Capovilla died early Sunday in a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil, said Catherine Capovilla, a property manager and real estate agent in Miami. A funeral was planned for Monday.




Congrats, Shoog, you are now famous.

[SpursWoman]

I'm not from Tennessee....

[ALVAREZ6]

That's crazy...she was 100 years older than me. Wow.


That's a long ass life.

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

vBookie on Shoog?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

my great grandmother died at the age of 106, she died in the year 2000. Also my grandmother's sisters are 98 and 95 right now and going strong. The women in my family are resilient as , the bad news is the men in my family average around 75

[ShoogarBear]

I knew how this was going to end up before I even opened this thread.

[midgetonadonkey]

my great grandmother died at the age of 106, she died in the year 2000. Also my grandmother's sisters are 98 and 95 right now and going strong. The women in my family are resilient as , the bad news is the men in my family average around 75

That's nothing. Men in my family average 60.

[Solid D]

After early accounts of people living as long as over 900 years, pre-flood, the Bible statement in Genesis 6:3 that a man's days will be 120 years seems to hold true. You just don't hear of anyone living beyond 120.

Supposedly, the island of Okinawa has the most centenarians in the world. Average life span for women there is mid-80s and high 70s for men. Lots of green, leafy veggies and fish diet.

http://okinawaprogram.com/okinawa_program.html

[Duncan21]

man i would hate to live that long

[ObiwanGinobili]

my great grandmother died at the age of 106, she died in the year 2000. Also my grandmother's sisters are 98 and 95 right now and going strong. The women in my family are resilient as , the bad news is the men in my family average around 75

Don;t feel too bad.

all the men on my mom's side have gone at 64. every single one.
thats 13 men and counting - none go past 64.

[tlongII]

After early accounts of people living as long as over 900 years, pre-flood, the Bible statement in Genesis 6:3 that a man's days will be 120 years seems to hold true. You just don't hear of anyone living beyond 120.

Supposedly, the island of Okinawa has the most centenarians in the world. Average life span for women there is mid-80s and high 70s for men. Lots of green, leafy veggies and fish diet.

http://okinawaprogram.com/okinawa_program.html

I don't wish to offend you, but I don't believe the bible has any insight whatsoever as to the life expectancy of humans.

[Solid D]

Okay. You don't offend me.

So far so good though on that 120 year thing.

[nkdlunch]

Daniel San ed it up by leaving Okinawa and his Japanese ho

[tlongII]

Okay. You don't offend me.

So far so good though on that 120 year thing.

I would be very surprised if anyone lived to 120 at the time the Bible was transcribed.

[Solid D]

Just for those who are interested, there is another view on what was written in Gen. 6, which could be correct, and that is God was saying that The Great Flood would come in 120 years. To be fair, historians also point to that opinion as the meaning of Gen. 6 when it says (verse 3) "Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."

[E20]

I heard about this on the radio going to school. USA now has the oldest women 116. Almost near Mr.Burns. (124)

[tlongII]

The key to the fountain of youth lies in stem cell research.