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World’s oldest person, Yone Minagawa, dies at 114
Japanese national Yone Minagawa, recognized worldwide as the oldest living person, died of old age at nursing home in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture Monday afternoon, Japanese media reports.
Born on January 4, 1893, Minagawa was certified the world’s oldest person by the Guinness Book of World records following the death of the previous record-holder Emma Faust Tillman in January, but had held the title of Japan’s oldest person since 2005. Following her death, U.S. national Edna Parker, also 114, takes over the title of world’s oldest person.
Although Minagawa’s last years were spent in a wheelchair, she was in a healthy state and enjoyed playing musical instruments for recreation.
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114 years is a very long life. She must have had very interesting things to tell from such a long life. Electricity, phone, radio and TV - she was there from the entire beginning - plus 2 world wars. Hopefully she got to write her memoirs so the world can share her thoughts and insight.
I wonder about her happiness, genetic inheritance, lifesyle, diet, spirituality, and values and how they contributed to her longevity.
Wow… 114. I hope that she had lived her life the pay she wanted to.
Oh ! It is great ! Hindu Astrology has fixed 120 years as the maximum longevity for human beings and she has vindicated this theory. Is it possible to get her birth time, so that a research can be made astrologically on her life span. If this is known, it can be sent to my email “astroemperor at yahoo.com”
umm osrry to mess NATHANS theory on Hindu Astrology
but Jeanne Calment of Arles, France lived to 122 years
1875-1997
[…] Japan’s oldest person, Sitsu Nakano, died of old age at a nursing home in Ogori, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sunday 2:55 pm, Japanese media outlets report, only a week after the world’s oldest person, Yone Minagawa, residing in the same prefecture as Nakano, had died. […]
she is the cutest little thing i have ever seen!
go yone!! awwwwww (:
ohh and she’s my hero!