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[IncognitoHFX]

This is completely random. I've been browsing the internet a bit at work and reading random news pieces from back home.

I came across an article that said only 14 in 100,000 people live over the age of 100. This completely blew me out of the water. I've known at least six or seven people in my life time who were over the age of 100 when they died. I had an great aunt who lived until 106. I thought this was common in the West--but I guess it isn't.

Just out of personal curiousity, does anyone here know anyone over 100? I'm wondering if it's regional or not.

[Moonshield]

I wonder if I'll still be able to throw a hooker through a plate glass window if I make it to 100. Do you think its possible chief?

[Teelo]

What I want to know is how they fill out forms of the type DD/MM/YY.

[Otherside]

[IncognitoHFX]

[Bramble]

Not yet. One of my aunts is 89 and my other aunt and uncle are 91 ... hopefully they'll be the first members of the family to make it past 100.

[Louie]

My parents live in an elderly apartment complex, which has become more diversified in the past 3 years or so, yet 80%+ are still over 55.

Well, on the 5th floor of the building where my parents live, there is this man who is 104 years old.
He still walks around and even drives!!

The sad part is that 75% of all members of my family tragically die between the ages of 53 and 57. The oldest members only lived to be 60 (the oldest was 63).......

[RACETRAITOR]

I'm pretty sure I don't, although there are a few relatives back home I'd have to double-check on.

My grandmother-in-law made it to 96.

[Teelo]

[seoulteacher]

I had a step great-great aunt, Tante Berthe (don't know exactly how many 'greats' it'd really need ) who lived to be 104.

By then her body was quite twisted (ostereoporosis?) and she was in a wheelchair. But she had never needed glasses, and I remember her looking out over a lawn, in her last year or so, and pointing out that it was uneven and needed rolling - and she was right; a lovely, bright ol' gal!

But I also remember the Rector of the RC Cathedral in Vancouver saying that his experiences didn't seem to tally with life expectancy stats in Canada (1999 figures: 81.7 (women) and 76.3 (men) - http://www.fidelity.ca/fidelity/cda/live/0,,ZW5nbGlzaEBfNjcyNw%3D%3D,00.html?strmid=54&fromhier=true&tab2=3&tab3=6&tab4=4
He figured that the age at death of his parishioners was more like early-mid 60s.

[poet13]

Long time ago I did some orthopedic rehab at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto. There was a veterans wing there and I spent a lot of time talking to those guys. A few of those guys were over 100, and most over 85. Crotchety bunch of old goats.

[sojourner1]

I used to as a kid about 20 to 25 years ago when I went door to door shoveling snow, raking leaves, and mowing grass. I lived in a small town in rural Missouri in Americas Midwest.

It was common back then for people to be 100+ years old, but today is much less common. They were all ladies.

[T-J]

My Great Grandmother lived to 103, her younger sister passed at 101 a year after her.

She lived independently until 100 then needed more full time care in an assisted living facility. When she was 101 her doctor said that he was "concerned about the onset of diabetes" and suggested she not indulge in her daily treat of chocolate anymore. The family told him that at 101 if she wanted to chase her chocolate bar with a shot of Jack Daniels it was fine with us and to STFU.

[seoulteacher]

OK, so its probably unsubstantiated (just found via a google search), and its not from personal experience...but I did chuckle, espec where the bride says she ''hoped the marriage would last''!


from: http://www.lifesupporters.com/forums/world-around-us/man-33-marries-104-year-old-woman-3988.html

Man, 33, Marries 104-Year-Old Woman
from my Eyewitness News:

A 33-year-old Malaysian man who married a 104-year-old woman said it was "God's will" that he tie the knot with someone old enought to be his great grandmother. For her part, the bride said she hoped the marriage would last.

"It may seem strange to those who don't understand us but I have found peace since we got married two months ago," Muhammad Noor Che Musa was quoted as saying.

It was his first marriage and his wife's 21st. The report did not say if any of Wook's Kundor's previous 20 husbands are still alive.

Muhammad, who was a lodger in Wook's house, said he initially felt sorry for her as she was lonely but over time his feelings had grown stronger despite the 71-year age gap.

He said many villagers near their home in northern Terengganu State did not understand his decision to marry Wook and some questioned his motives. "I know society is cynical but I didn't marry Wook for her money. She is poor," he said. "Her only asset is her deep religious knowledge. Through her I can deepen my knowledge of religion."

He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge.

Wook was quoted as saying: "I hope this marriage will last. I ask that people view our marriage in a positive light as we have not done anything this is forbidden by God."

Malaysian Muslim men are allowed by their religion to take up to four wives at a time, but reports of women who marry more than once are rare.

[IncognitoHFX]

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=J7te6UwgSOY

I guess Okinawa kicks my hometown's ass in terms of longevity.