Blimey - 157 year old woman???

• Guest 655

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  10 June 2010     13:5455817
  #1      
  I found this on Digital Spy....
  
  """"Census officials in Indonesia have reportedly accepted a woman's claim to be the oldest person in history.
  
  According to AFP, the authorities believe that South Sumatran villager Turinah was born in 1853, making her 157 years old.
  
  Statistics bureau official Jhonny Sardjono said: "There's no authentic data to prove her age but judging from her statements and the age of her adopted daughter, who's now 108 years old, it's difficult to doubt it.
  
  "Despite her age she still has an incredible memory, clear sight and has no hearing problems. She speaks Dutch quite fluently."""""""""
  
  Is she or isnt she? I wonder, amazing if true and that means theres hope for all of us!
• Guest 657

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  10 June 2010     13:5955819
  #2      
  Woah, that is incredible.
  www.facebook.com/jeaneheadstonehunter
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  10 June 2010     16:4055846
  #3      
  Not incredible at all all you have to do is NOT die (which most of us are doing on a daily basis!)
  
  However to be the fattest takes some effort! (seen some in Dover trying to beat her!)
  
  http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/03/17/behar.donna.simpson.intv.cnn?iref=allsearch
• Guest 655

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  10 June 2010     16:4255847
  #4      
  That easy eh.... so who are the unlucky so and sos who somehow manage to die 'on a daily basis'. I have not done it once yet, fingers crossed..... Bob
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  10 June 2010     16:4755849
  #5      
  Barry. Not Die - which most of us are doing on a daily basis. Admittedly a certain amount of ambiguity in the sentence so have emphasised the NOT. thanks.
  
  I suspect you are the sort of person who when told not to 'shut the door in her face' will claim there was no door in her face.
• Guest 655

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  10 June 2010     17:0555853
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  10 June 2010     17:2855859
  #7      
  people used to die on opportunity knocks on a weekly basis at one time.
• Guest 651

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  10 June 2010     17:3555860
  #8      
  Wonder if she can be dendro-dated !!
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 649

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  10 June 2010     18:2955873
  #9      
  I have been told that the good lady said "Her long life is down to eating tins of beans." if that is so I still have over 70years left yet.
• Bern

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  10 June 2010     19:0855876
  #10      
  God save me from living to 157. Dignitas will have a customer long before that.....................
• Guest 653

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  11 June 2010     05:4755934
  #11      
  It's not the growing old that's the big question, but what physical and mental state will you be in ?
  
  This Indonesian Lady sounds like she's in pretty good nick.
  
  Jean's Mum is 90 and goes down to Town on her own on a regular basis and has her hair done once a week too. Her only/main problem is her hearing and she's as stubborn as a mule and won't turn either of her hearing aids up - she hears mostly with her eyes - lipreading.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 690

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  11 June 2010     13:1855976
  #12      
  I would imagine the hardest part must be for her poor relatives trying to find a birthday card with 157 on it.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 675

  • Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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  11 June 2010     14:2255983
  #13      
  There was a case in France of a 70 year old selling her flat to an investor on the understanding that he could claim it on her death. When she did die, in her early 100's, she had outlived him by over fifteen years.
  Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
  Richard Armour
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  11 June 2010     18:3156018
  #14      
  respect!