World's oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, dies at 118

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Source: The Guardian

Sister Andrée was born in 1904 and survived an outbreak of Covid-19 in 2021 in her nursing home that killed 10 other residents.

The world’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesperson has said.

Randon, known as Sister Andrée, was born in southern France on 11 February 1904, when the first world war was still a decade away.

She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, spokesperson David Tavella said on Tuesday.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/17/worlds-oldest-known-person-french-nun-lucile-randon-sister-andree-dies-at-118

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1. The world's oldest person dying seems to be a regular occurrence. n/t

[Kablooie]

2. Yes, that's so strange.

If they keep dying at this rate there won't be any left before long.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. And yet, there is always another oldest-living-person to take their place

Much like being a Taliban second-in-command. A risky title, with someone always available to step in.

Being the oldest living person has advantages, for example, not having to turn down invitations to high school class reunions.

[SunSeeker]

3. Never married women live longer than married women.

The opposite is true for men.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Married men don't live longer.

It just seems longer.

[SunSeeker]

5. I assure you, the marriage feels even longer for the woman.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201701/is-it-true-single-women-and-married-men-do-best

[LudwigPastorius]

6. Touche !

[3auld6phart]

11. Tough old timer

Women can be tough. I think of the ladies the pioneers who raised and kept their children during t the early years, those on the early ships coming from abroad.I could go on and on. Dang,they were tough lot.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I don't want to live that long.

I would like to know what happens in the world up until that time without actually living it. Dos that make sense?

[Siwsan]

10. I don't care how long I live, as long as wasting away doesn't precede death

I've watched too many family members experience long, painful, exhausting death processes that took months to end.

I want to live only as long as my mind/body are intact.

[Delphinus]

12. Agreed.

For me, it has always been about quality, not quantity. And I know many disagree.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. I had a great, great grandmother

Who lived to be about 112. The problem was her date of birth was in question. They didn't do routine birth certificates back then. There was something in an old bible that conflicted with a baptismal record.

She was a very large woman, who needed a special wheel chair built for her to get around. I understand she was a very happy and joyful woman.

[Torchlight]

13. Weird to think she was a teenager at the end of the first world war.

an adult during the second, thinking about her retirement during the moonshot, and well into the realm of elderly when email became the hip trend.

She watched the world go through some amazing changes; some good, others not. She saw the phrase "never forget" become forgotten.