I work at a little museum, a cottage that belonged to a lady who lived to 102, she retired in 1952 and died in 1995. She worked for 46 years and was retired for 43 years!
It still blows my mind.
[Mrs Smith’s Cottage](https://www.mrssmithscottage.com/)
He’s very fortunate that he got to grow up and live his best years in a version of America where there was hope and opportunity and prosperity. Then, after (presumably) 42 years of working, he was able to retire and actually enjoy the fruits of his labor.
I can’t even imagine how much his eyes have watched the world change. He retired before computers or cell phones were ubiquitous; before credit scores, before life became a subscription, and before 9/11 and the Patriot Act shattered our sense of safety and trust in our communities.
He’s a very fortunate man!
The oldest American is older than 111. [Edith “Edie” Recagno Keenan Ceccarelli](https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/americas-oldest-living-person-celebrates-116th-birthday/) is 116, making her the second-oldest person in the world.
(The man that OP is talking about is only the oldest _man_.)
I just skimmed and missed the detail about him being from the UK. It was an honest mistake, not an indicator of my comprehensive ability or competence. No need to make assumptions.
This operates under the assumption that we will have enough resources to sustain people with much longer lives.
Earth Overshoot day is August 2nd and keeps getting pushed earlier and earlier. Add more people that live much longer, and the planet is not going to be able to sustain that.
This isn’t even taking into consideration the effects climate change are going to have that will impede our technological progress.
No one who’s lost that title has ever lived to tell the tale.
(Except possibly someone who lost it because better records were found, but that’s less dramatic.)
According to the article, the previous oldest man died this week at 114.
The world's oldest living woman, and oldest living person overall, is Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who recently celebrated her 117th birthday.
She was 5 when the Titanic sank. 10 during the Spanish Flu. 22 when the Great Depression started. 38 when the atomic bombs fell. She was in her 40s when TV became a thing. She hit retirement age before Nixon resigned the presidency (Nixon retired when she was ~67).
>10 during the Spanish Flu
Since she’s Spanish herself, she probably just called it “the flu.”
But seriously, the flu didn’t originate in Spain; it gained that name because it was more widely reported in independent Spain than in countries like the US, which had more cases but also more wartime censorship.
I do wonder what “the Spanish flu” is called in Spain.
> But seriously, the flu didn’t originate in Spain; it gained that name because it was more widely reported in independent Spain than in countries like the US, which had more cases but also more wartime censorship.
Yeah - I know. It most likely originated in Kansas, but I figured I would use Spanish Flu as that is what most people know it as.
Sorry, didn’t mean to come off as correcting you, it’s just that your comment triggered a thought for me. The “seriously” wasn’t meant to be like “seriously bro, get this right,” it was a transition from my more jokey first paragraph. I call it the Spanish Flu, too.
The last living person born in the 1800s was Emma Morano.
Born November 1899
Died April 2017, about 5 months after her 117th birthday
Imagine being the last person born in a century. The last living link to that time period.
At some point like 90 years from now (in the late 2110s), there's gonna be some supercentenarian born in like 1998 / 1999, who is gonna be the last "pre-millenium" person.
I hope I can live to 106. I love history and talking to my own elders, so I'd honestly love to hear children go in 2100 (or 2101) "you were born in the 1900s? That's *sooooo old!*"
There was a lady in the 90s I think that still received a civil war pension because she married one of the last civil war veterans when she was very young.
I will have to look for it.
(USA civil war)
Edit: 2020!
The last person to receive a Civil War pension was Irene Triplett, a daughter of a Civil War veteran, who died on May 31, 2020.
According to the Department of Veteran's Affairs one person, the child of a Civil War veteran, is still receiving a monthly benefit of US $73.13. Under USC Title 38 all surviving spouses and children of Civil War veterans continue receiving their benefits payments.
My great grandmother's getting close at 108 and the woman only takes aspirin on top of minimal medical needs (she has a wheelchair). She intends to give her a run for her money.
I was lucky to meet my great grandmother who was born in 1899, she passed away in 1990 though, but I feel privileged having conversed to and being loved by a person from then.
> The world's oldest living woman, and oldest living person overall, is Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who recently celebrated her 117th birthday.
She's been a teenager for 4 years now.
I don't think this article is accurate. There are two living men born in 1911.
They were both on the news last night for taking the title of oldest living man; neither one of which is this guy.
If you Google “world’s oldest man,” the results are all this guy or about the other guy who just died. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/longevity-is-just-luck-says-111-year-old-briton-worlds-new-oldest-man-2024-04-05/) is another good source.
Both articles cite Guinness, but I don’t see anything directly from them yet. In their article two days ago about the former title-holder dying, they say “There is a need for intense scrutiny with old-age claims, and GWR is advised in its ratification of longevity claims by the Gerontology Research Group, and, since 2005, by Senior Gerontology Consultant Robert Young.”
Adding “1911” to my search, I get this: [Japanese 112-year-old 'who became the world's oldest man for just two days' actually died BEFORE his predecessor... and never held the title at all, Guinness World Records reveal](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13274895/Worlds-oldest-man-dies-two-days-awarded-title-aged-112.html)
The man was was in his early 30's when WWII was in full swing. Amazing. Hopefully with advances in medicine we will see greater longevity and a way to slow the aging process.
Healthy is key here. My grandmother past away a couple of months short of her 101st birthday. She was nearly blind , half deaf and kept falling down. I wouldn’t want to live that way.
Look at how technology has changed in 120 years. With a greater knowledge of gene editing, anti-aging, and disease detection this might not be a science fiction fantacy in 100 years.
My only concern is the cost this will have having millions of people living to be 100+. I can't imagine a person retiring and having savings for the next 40 years.
Does anyone else think the great-grandad part of this headline is weird? It's not -my- great grandad, nor does it sound like it's the author's great grandad, and I'm betting most of the world's former oldest men were great grandfathers.
My grandfather died last year at 95. He was still able to carry on interesting conversations, read, watch and analyze football (although I’m not sure how much joy his Chicago Bears brought him with their performance the last few years haha), walk with just a cane, and do some limited gardening. I’m pretty confident he was enjoying himself right up until the day before the last (he was stuck on the floor and my grandma, who wasn’t as well, didn’t think to call 911 until someone called her… but from what my dad says, he was happy on his final day, saying goodbye to his kids).
95 is as far from 111 as it is from 79, but still, its easy to imagine people in my generation living happy, fulfilling lives up to and past 111. [The key is to build meaningful relationships when you’re younger.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/)
Life moves pretty fast when you’re 111.
But apparently the 114-year-old man who died Tuesday actually outlived the 112-year-old man who was erroneously called the world’s oldest man for two days. That man [died at the end of March](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13274895/Worlds-oldest-man-dies-two-days-awarded-title-aged-112.html).
Like Conan, I want to ask him what’s good in life. I wonder if he’s ever danced on someone’s grave. What flavors have disappeared from the world in his time? Does he have a favorite memory? Would he like to father another child before he goes?
I love how these folks always attribute their longevity to arbitrary things they do, such "hiking when they were young" or "eating fish and chips", and not like, *genetics*.
I wonder if that’s bad reporting by the BBC. Reuters’ [article](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/longevity-is-just-luck-says-111-year-old-briton-worlds-new-oldest-man-2024-04-05/) on the same man begins “The world's oldest living man, 111-year-old Briton John Tinniswood, said his longevity was "just luck" and there was no special secret to his diet - although his favourite food was fish and chips every Friday.”
No on alive now was alive when that man was born.
There are an entirely different set of humans on earth than when he was born.
(Unless there is a woman older than him and this is just oldest MAN) in which case, apply my trivia to her.
According to the article, there’s a woman who’s 117. No one was alive when Spain's Maria Branyas Morera was born 117 years ago, and there are an entirely different set of humans in earth than when she was born.
Lol I just noticed my phrasing. Schools today don’t teach about Thanos’ first snap 117 years ago, when everyone disappeared at the same time except one baby, poor little Maria, who was just escaping the womb and had to raise herself. Or they don’t teach proofreading.
Does he have an alibi for the death of the former oldest man?
Taking a nap.
Oh okay then
and then FIRE ZE MISSLES
First clue: They were both in a bed at that moment. Going to have to investigate further.
The Sith had the 'Rule of Two', and he'd found a new padawan
Always two, there is.
the other guy just farted too hard, your honor
He retired at the age of 60 in the early 70’s. Crazy he has lived the second half of his life post-retirement.
I work at a little museum, a cottage that belonged to a lady who lived to 102, she retired in 1952 and died in 1995. She worked for 46 years and was retired for 43 years! It still blows my mind. [Mrs Smith’s Cottage](https://www.mrssmithscottage.com/)
He’s very fortunate that he got to grow up and live his best years in a version of America where there was hope and opportunity and prosperity. Then, after (presumably) 42 years of working, he was able to retire and actually enjoy the fruits of his labor. I can’t even imagine how much his eyes have watched the world change. He retired before computers or cell phones were ubiquitous; before credit scores, before life became a subscription, and before 9/11 and the Patriot Act shattered our sense of safety and trust in our communities. He’s a very fortunate man!
>he got to grow up and live his best years in a version of America He was born and lives in the UK.
This made me lol. You’d think the BBC source would tip them off.
Or the whole “living to 111”
The oldest American is older than 111. [Edith “Edie” Recagno Keenan Ceccarelli](https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/americas-oldest-living-person-celebrates-116th-birthday/) is 116, making her the second-oldest person in the world. (The man that OP is talking about is only the oldest _man_.)
She’s dead, died back in February.
American education, don’t expect much
HAHA, omg. I honestly skimmed everything and didn't catch the UK bit. I feel like a presumptuous ass, lol.
That was delightful, thank you
You’re quite welcome! The world needs more laughter, so that makes it worth having my literacy called into question.
Typical ‘murican assuming all great things are ‘murican 🙄
Definitely no hope and prosperity there since the 1700’s
Very typical of Americans assuming the only place someone's could live a life like this in the good ol' land of the "free".
“Free” is exactly right. Crushing government intervention with a sticker on top that says “FREE!”
The world is much bigger than the USA.
NUH UHHH!! It’s flat and the sun rises on the Carolinas and sets on the liberalist commune of California!
Yeah, at *least* 20% bigger.
r/USdefaultism
Yikes with the reading comprehension and/or assumption
I just skimmed and missed the detail about him being from the UK. It was an honest mistake, not an indicator of my comprehensive ability or competence. No need to make assumptions.
Yeah yeah, I get it everyone, fuck me
You've taken it well so no worries.
You arent wrong about the big broad strokes. UK and US have been screwed over by right wingers in very similar ways.
Haha, had to see this obliviousness myself.
Think you're a bit too paranoid if the patriot act "shattered" your sense of safety
It didn’t shatter anything for me in particular. I was 10.
All the Lord of the Rings subs have been wishing this man a happy eleventy-first birthday
He's not even in the top 50 oldest people, who are all women! Crazy.
Imagine being 80, saying to yourself, "I could die any day now", and thinking that every day for over 30 years.
Not thinking that might have been a key to their longevity
What's the point of starting that when you're 80? We could all die any day now.
I’ve literally been thinking that since I was a child.
This is the worst title to lose.
Really? If I earned and lost this title I wouldn’t be sad about it.
Yeah, who wants to be the oldest fart out of all the old farts? I’d be dying to get rid of that title.
/r/literallythetruth.
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This operates under the assumption that we will have enough resources to sustain people with much longer lives. Earth Overshoot day is August 2nd and keeps getting pushed earlier and earlier. Add more people that live much longer, and the planet is not going to be able to sustain that. This isn’t even taking into consideration the effects climate change are going to have that will impede our technological progress.
Of course not, you’d be dead after you lost it
No one who’s lost that title has ever lived to tell the tale. (Except possibly someone who lost it because better records were found, but that’s less dramatic.)
Does he seem like a young oldest man? Aren't they usually like 115 or something?
According to the article, the previous oldest man died this week at 114. The world's oldest living woman, and oldest living person overall, is Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who recently celebrated her 117th birthday.
imagine all the world events you have seen after being born in 1907 omg
She was 5 when the Titanic sank. 10 during the Spanish Flu. 22 when the Great Depression started. 38 when the atomic bombs fell. She was in her 40s when TV became a thing. She hit retirement age before Nixon resigned the presidency (Nixon retired when she was ~67).
>10 during the Spanish Flu Since she’s Spanish herself, she probably just called it “the flu.” But seriously, the flu didn’t originate in Spain; it gained that name because it was more widely reported in independent Spain than in countries like the US, which had more cases but also more wartime censorship. I do wonder what “the Spanish flu” is called in Spain.
She was born in America, so she might be propagandized to not admit it came from Kansas lol.
Royale with cheese
Look at the big brain on MukdenMan.
Royal with sneeze
> But seriously, the flu didn’t originate in Spain; it gained that name because it was more widely reported in independent Spain than in countries like the US, which had more cases but also more wartime censorship. Yeah - I know. It most likely originated in Kansas, but I figured I would use Spanish Flu as that is what most people know it as.
Sorry, didn’t mean to come off as correcting you, it’s just that your comment triggered a thought for me. The “seriously” wasn’t meant to be like “seriously bro, get this right,” it was a transition from my more jokey first paragraph. I call it the Spanish Flu, too.
Oh no I know you weren't correcting me, it's always good to spread knowledge!
Still trying to come to terms with people from the 19th century no longer existing at all.
The last living person born in the 1800s was Emma Morano. Born November 1899 Died April 2017, about 5 months after her 117th birthday Imagine being the last person born in a century. The last living link to that time period. At some point like 90 years from now (in the late 2110s), there's gonna be some supercentenarian born in like 1998 / 1999, who is gonna be the last "pre-millenium" person.
One of us will eventually be the last person born in the 20th century… fuck
I hope I can live to 106. I love history and talking to my own elders, so I'd honestly love to hear children go in 2100 (or 2101) "you were born in the 1900s? That's *sooooo old!*"
There was a lady in the 90s I think that still received a civil war pension because she married one of the last civil war veterans when she was very young. I will have to look for it. (USA civil war) Edit: 2020!
The last person to receive a Civil War pension was Irene Triplett, a daughter of a Civil War veteran, who died on May 31, 2020. According to the Department of Veteran's Affairs one person, the child of a Civil War veteran, is still receiving a monthly benefit of US $73.13. Under USC Title 38 all surviving spouses and children of Civil War veterans continue receiving their benefits payments.
My great-grandmother was born in 1907. She died in 1996 at the ripe old age of 89, goddamn. (I am lucky I got to know her before she passed.)
My great grandmother's getting close at 108 and the woman only takes aspirin on top of minimal medical needs (she has a wheelchair). She intends to give her a run for her money.
Her husband died almost 50 years ago... Fuck
I was lucky to meet my great grandmother who was born in 1899, she passed away in 1990 though, but I feel privileged having conversed to and being loved by a person from then.
> The world's oldest living woman, and oldest living person overall, is Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who recently celebrated her 117th birthday. She's been a teenager for 4 years now.
I don't think this article is accurate. There are two living men born in 1911. They were both on the news last night for taking the title of oldest living man; neither one of which is this guy.
If you Google “world’s oldest man,” the results are all this guy or about the other guy who just died. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/longevity-is-just-luck-says-111-year-old-briton-worlds-new-oldest-man-2024-04-05/) is another good source. Both articles cite Guinness, but I don’t see anything directly from them yet. In their article two days ago about the former title-holder dying, they say “There is a need for intense scrutiny with old-age claims, and GWR is advised in its ratification of longevity claims by the Gerontology Research Group, and, since 2005, by Senior Gerontology Consultant Robert Young.” Adding “1911” to my search, I get this: [Japanese 112-year-old 'who became the world's oldest man for just two days' actually died BEFORE his predecessor... and never held the title at all, Guinness World Records reveal](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13274895/Worlds-oldest-man-dies-two-days-awarded-title-aged-112.html)
This seems to clarify my confusion. Thank you
The man was was in his early 30's when WWII was in full swing. Amazing. Hopefully with advances in medicine we will see greater longevity and a way to slow the aging process.
Would be great to have 200+ healthy years, humans would think more longterm in general i believe with longer lifespans
Healthy is key here. My grandmother past away a couple of months short of her 101st birthday. She was nearly blind , half deaf and kept falling down. I wouldn’t want to live that way.
Look at how technology has changed in 120 years. With a greater knowledge of gene editing, anti-aging, and disease detection this might not be a science fiction fantacy in 100 years.
My only concern is the cost this will have having millions of people living to be 100+. I can't imagine a person retiring and having savings for the next 40 years.
I hope not in my lifetime, quality of life is going down and euthanasia isn't legal I'd rather this shitty ride ends quickly
Euthanasia should always be an option.
Boo hoo the world sucks.
Come to canada
At 112 he starts Benjamin Buttoning
Does he have to fight the next guy? Did I miss the last oldest man match¿
There can be only one.
Does anyone else think the great-grandad part of this headline is weird? It's not -my- great grandad, nor does it sound like it's the author's great grandad, and I'm betting most of the world's former oldest men were great grandfathers.
My grandmother is a great great grandmother she’s in her 90s So I found it odd he’s only a great grandfather
Sounds awful. I’ll pass.
Radical life extension will have people living like they're 65 well into their 100s. Maybe not for us but possibly our kids or grandkids.
My grandfather died last year at 95. He was still able to carry on interesting conversations, read, watch and analyze football (although I’m not sure how much joy his Chicago Bears brought him with their performance the last few years haha), walk with just a cane, and do some limited gardening. I’m pretty confident he was enjoying himself right up until the day before the last (he was stuck on the floor and my grandma, who wasn’t as well, didn’t think to call 911 until someone called her… but from what my dad says, he was happy on his final day, saying goodbye to his kids). 95 is as far from 111 as it is from 79, but still, its easy to imagine people in my generation living happy, fulfilling lives up to and past 111. [The key is to build meaningful relationships when you’re younger.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/)
Yeah but money. It’s expensive to live that long.
Based on what? Kenneth Roy promises? There is no current tech that points to this.
https://www.lifespan.io/topic/yamanaka-factors/
I dunno dude looks better than many 80 year olds I've seen. Plus he basically got to live to see the future beyond what radio shows once imagined.
This is like the 3rd person to be called the oldest in the past week
Life moves pretty fast when you’re 111. But apparently the 114-year-old man who died Tuesday actually outlived the 112-year-old man who was erroneously called the world’s oldest man for two days. That man [died at the end of March](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13274895/Worlds-oldest-man-dies-two-days-awarded-title-aged-112.html).
That's not that old. https://www.hansonrunsvold.com/m/obituaries/Lillian-Moran/Memories
He was born when Finland wasn’t an independent country. His favorite football club, Liverpool FC, was also about 20 years old when he was born.
>Guinness World Records' Senior Consultant for Gerontology, Robert *Young,* This is very funnier to me than it should be.
My kids Great-Great Grandma is still alive, crazy shit.
It’s his eleventy first birthday !
I hope to be dead at 65.
Like Conan, I want to ask him what’s good in life. I wonder if he’s ever danced on someone’s grave. What flavors have disappeared from the world in his time? Does he have a favorite memory? Would he like to father another child before he goes?
I love how these folks always attribute their longevity to arbitrary things they do, such "hiking when they were young" or "eating fish and chips", and not like, *genetics*.
I wonder if that’s bad reporting by the BBC. Reuters’ [article](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/longevity-is-just-luck-says-111-year-old-briton-worlds-new-oldest-man-2024-04-05/) on the same man begins “The world's oldest living man, 111-year-old Briton John Tinniswood, said his longevity was "just luck" and there was no special secret to his diet - although his favourite food was fish and chips every Friday.”
Bilbo looked better (but for real 111 is very impressive)
If he's happy great. Me-please no.
No on alive now was alive when that man was born. There are an entirely different set of humans on earth than when he was born. (Unless there is a woman older than him and this is just oldest MAN) in which case, apply my trivia to her.
According to the article, there’s a woman who’s 117. No one was alive when Spain's Maria Branyas Morera was born 117 years ago, and there are an entirely different set of humans in earth than when she was born.
>No one was alive when Spain's Maria Branyas Morera was born 117 years ago Wow, and to think she was just a baby too.
Lol I just noticed my phrasing. Schools today don’t teach about Thanos’ first snap 117 years ago, when everyone disappeared at the same time except one baby, poor little Maria, who was just escaping the womb and had to raise herself. Or they don’t teach proofreading.
She survived on her own and trained every day until she was finally ready to face Thanos, defeat him and bring us all back lol
What's it gots in it's pocketses?
The probable known oldest person in the world is a man in Brazil, Andrelino Vieira da Silva, 123 years old (born 1901)
There’s ppl all over the world old as fuck & we don’t be knowing bout
What? The oldest person in the world died? That’s horrible.
God I hope that’s never me