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shy
Crypt Keeper
Australia
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 Posted - 04 February 2004 : 10:34:10 PM
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MOSCOW - A Chechen great-great-grandmother born in 1881 could be the oldest woman in the world, Russian state television reports, saying she pipped the current record holder by eight years.
Pasikhat Dzhukalayeva has nine grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren who call her 'Granny Asi'.
"I do not know why I have lived so long. I have buried five brothers and sisters, and four children," the wrinkled Dzhukalayeva, who moves around in a wheelchair, told Rossiya television. She showed off a passport giving her year of birth.
If 122 as claimed, Dzhukalayeva would have been in her thirties during World War One and Russia's 1917 revolution, and already in her sixties when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported most of the Chechen people to Central Asia in 1944.
The most long-lived person with reliable documentation is believed to have been France's Jeanne-Louise Calment, who died at 122.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's oldest living woman is U.S. citizen Charlotte Benkner, who was born in Germany in late 1889 -- a mere 113 years ago.
According to Guinness, the oldest living man is Joan Riudavets Moll from Spain, who was born less than a month after Benkner in 1889, the year Adolf Hitler was born.
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Ghost
Australia
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Posted - 12 February 2004 : 10:00:32 AM
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I know I dont want to live till i am 122. does anyone else think that this age is just too high? i think I would like to go when I begin burdening those that care for me or when i cant do anything except sit in a chair and drool or day. thats not much of a life. i think 80 would be agood age if you still have all your faculties
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shy
Crypt Keeper
Australia
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Posted - 12 February 2004 : 1:58:13 PM
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I think if I had to pick an age now that I would find the age inappropriate once I neared it, and the problem with this is that everyone ages differently. My Nanna at 80 was suffering from dementia and though I didn't feel that she had any quality of life, she lived another 10 years before passing away, and most of those years she could still function but she just didn't know what she was doing.
Though I understand what you are saying, I too wouldn't want to be a burden to my loved ones or end up sitting in my own piss and shit all day, but at what stage are you aware that it isn't going to get much better?
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Buckshot
Crypt Keeper
Australia
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Posted - 12 February 2004 : 3:47:18 PM
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Yeah, you can't really put a figure on it...Leslie Neilson was 76 when he made the 3rd Naken Gun and he's still going strong.
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shy
Crypt Keeper
Australia
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Posted - 12 February 2004 : 4:10:51 PM
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Originally posted by Buckshot
Yeah, you can't really put a figure on it...Leslie Neilson was 76 when he made the 3rd Naken Gun and he's still going strong.
He is still going yes.... but I wouldn't say going strong!
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Ghost
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Posted - 18 February 2004 : 2:19:25 PM
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i can understand what you are all saying, but still 122? thats really old!
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Could this be the world's oldest woman?
