Itooka, who died on Sunday at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and a yogurt-flavored drink called Calpis
Pretty suspicious that the world’s oldest people keep dying.
I heard Mozart is still around. He just published a new composition.
As someone pointed out last year, a lot of the places with a high proportion of people living to a very old age also have disproportionately low numbers of people dying in their 80s and 90s, poor record keeping, and tough economic conditions that motivate people to bump up their ages to collect their pensions earlier. In Japan in particular, clusters of supercentenarians correlate with places where birth registries were destroyed in WW2 bombing. I wonder whether this is the case here.
116… Wow
People are surprised in the comments but wasn’t it uncommon for some people living till 110-125 a few centuries ago?
I wonder how many oldest people die every year. It feels like a few every year
