5. Marie Louise Meiller
This was a French- Canadian who was born on August 29, 1880 and died on April 16, 1998 at the age of 117 years and 230 days. She died of a blood clot. By the time she was dying her daughter aged 90 years, was in the same nursing home. She was a known vegetarian and a chain cigarette smoker.
4. Lucy Hannah
She was an American super centenarian who was born on July 16, 1875 and died on March 21, 1993 at the age of 117 years 248 days. She is the oldest African – American to have ever lived and the oldest American at the time of her death.
3. Sarah Knauss
She was born in a small coal mining town of Hollywood and lived her entire life in Pennsylvania, working as an insurance office manager and a home maker. She loved eating potato chips, chocolate turtles and cashew nuts. Her hobbies were, watching televised golf and needlepoint.
2. Shigechiyo Izumi
Longevity seems to favor women thus making Izumi unique. He was born on June 29, 1865 and died on February 21, 1986 at the age of 120 years 237 days. He was a Japanese who has recorded the longest working life as he worked for 98 years. His wife died at age 90. He lived through a total of 71 premiers of Japan. He is known to have taken up smoking at the age of 70 and depended mostly on an alcoholic drink which was made from distilled rice or barley.
1. Jeanne Calment
This lady was born on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. Considering the lifespan of human beings, this lady overstayed her time on earth.
We can only attribute this longevity to the work of the gods since some of these people ate what is professed to be junk foods and smoked, yet they have outlived so many people who are cautious of what they do. Share these friends and let them live their life with little caution and leave the rest to God to prolong their lives.
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