America's oldest living person at 115 years old

[TheReal Kendall]

http://www.people.com/article/jeralean-talley-oldest-living-american-woman

Don't know if this has been posted or not but the lady is 115 years old. She's still able to move around with her walker and do activities. It's really amazing that she can still do stuff.

Would you want to live this long?

[~primetime~]

lol, damn she was born int he 19th century

she was in her mid 40s during WW2...that's crazy


yeah I'd like to live that long...why not? life is short

[TheReal Kendall]

I know. I bet she got stories for days.

[BasedTom]

Lol she was alive to see the Cubs win the World Series. Along with 2 world wars

[Draz]

I know. I bet she got stories for days.
Long story short

[Rocketswin2013]

if I can't actually live and go out I'd just rather die honestly.

[nightprowler10]

If we get to live that long, I wonder what stories we'd have that everyone will want to hear about aside from 9/11 and "the age before the internet".

Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

[ace23]

I want to die at 40ish.

[ROCSteady]

lol, damn she was born int he 19th century

she was in her mid 40s during WW2...that's crazy


yeah I'd like to live that long...why not? life is short

hate when people say that.

[TheReal Kendall]

hate when people say that.

It's true though

[bladefd]

115 huh? Truly is quite something.. :cheers:

[~primetime~]

hate when people say that.
You're the first I've heard to disagree with that

I bet even the lady in the OP agrees and she fcked Abe Lincoln

[PistonsFan#21]

lol, damn she was born int he 19th century

she was in her mid 40s during WW2...that's crazy


yeah I'd like to live that long...why not? life is short

all her best friends most likely died like 30-40 years ago...along with her husband, brothers, sisters, etc. Shes also about to witness the retirement of her grand kids.

Not to mention that her last periods were over 60 years ago

[RoseCity07]

That woman has pubic hairs older than anyone on ISH.

[JohnFreeman]

http://pad1.whstatic.com/images/thumb/d/df/BrownPaperBagPop-Step-2.jpg/365px-BrownPaperBagPop-Step-2.jpg

[Smook A.]

I want to die at 40ish.
Woah why? Thats way too young my dude

[Smook A.]

I wanna live up to 100. That'd be tight

[Smook A.]

Damn. She's got that picture of MLK next to her.

She was 68 when he died... wow

[East_Stone_Ya]

all her best friends most likely died like 30-40 years ago...along with her husband, brothers, sisters, etc. Shes also about to witness the retirement of her grand kids.

Not to mention that her last periods were over 60 years ago


:whatever:

[Nikola_]

That woman saw prime Mikan tearing up the league. :applause:

[Dresta]

You're the first I've heard to disagree with that

I bet even the lady in the OP agrees and she fcked Abe Lincoln
It is still a pointless platitude though, and certainly not a truth. Life is long to live through, but short to look back on; it's all a matter of perspective, and all relative. The longer you've lived the shorter the human life-span appears, which is just one of the many ironies of the human condition.

[~primetime~]

To most humans life feels short, there isn't enough time for most of us to do all the things we would like to do before death. If life spans were 1,000+ years I don't think most of us would be saying "life is too short". That saying is all in relation to what we want to accomplish before death and for most of us 60-80 years doesn't cut it.

[rufuspaul]

Meh. No way I'd want to live that long. You come into this world as part of a generation. You make your mark, procreate and then depart. You live to 115 you're intruding on other people's time. Plus it'd be hard to see the rest of your generation die off, outlive your kids, etc.

[brantonli]

Meh. No way I'd want to live that long. You come into this world as part of a generation. You make your mark, procreate and then depart. You live to 115 you're intruding on other people's time. Plus it'd be hard to see the rest of your generation die off, outlive your kids, etc.

How are you intruding on other people's time when you're just in a care home all day. Also, once humans get genetic engineering down (or before that, robot organs), we can finally start to live to 200 and things, 115 won't seem that long (and retirement age will be at a brisk 150 years old). I'd love to live that long, but with a computer, so I can troll on NBA forums of the future saying LeBron >> Kobe.

[rufuspaul]

How are you intruding on other people's time when you're just in a care home all day. Also, once humans get genetic engineering down (or before that, robot organs), we can finally start to live to 200 and things, 115 won't seem that long (and retirement age will be at a brisk 150 years old). I'd love to live that long, but with a computer, so I can troll on NBA forums of the future saying LeBron >> Kobe.


If living that long were the norm, we wouldn't be having this discussion. As it is, how many 115 year olds do you know? Not to mention that we've been paying that bitch's social security for 53 years!

[Jailblazers7]

Honestly, I'd be totally cool with dying at the average age in the US which I think is like 74. Quality of life drops off precipitously after that age for most people. I'm sort of tempted to plant to retire at 55 and just off myself if I live past 75. :lol

But I say that as a single person with no attachments. I'm sure if I have a wife, kids, and grandkids in my 70s I will want to stick around as long as possible to see them grow.

[~primetime~]

Honestly, I'd be totally cool with dying at the average age in the US which I think is like 74. Quality of life drops off precipitously after that age for most people. I'm sort of tempted to plant to retire at 55 and just off myself if I live past 75. :lol

But I say that as a single person with no attachments. I'm sure if I have a wife, kids, and grandkids in my 70s I will want to stick around as long as possible to see them grow.
I bet her quality of life probably dropped off at a considerably older age than the norm.



Me personally, I would live 1,000 years if I could...not sure if I want to continue after that much time...but maybe

I'd make new friends...get like 3 different doctorate degrees, live and travel all over the world...I'm in no rush to die

[~primetime~]

How are you intruding on other people's time when you're just in a care home all day. Also, once humans get genetic engineering down (or before that, robot organs), we can finally start to live to 200 and things, 115 won't seem that long (and retirement age will be at a brisk 150 years old). I'd love to live that long, but with a computer, so I can troll on NBA forums of the future saying LeBron >> Kobe.
yep, this WILL happen...only hope it happens in time for me

[Jailblazers7]

If I could stop aging at like 40 then I would be ok with living until the planet gives out. To much amazing stuff to do, things to learn, books to read, people to meet, etc.

[~primetime~]

If I could stop aging at like 40 then I would be ok with living until the planet gives out. To much amazing stuff to do, things to learn, books to read, people to meet, etc.
yep

probably not "planet gives out" though lol...that's a long fckin time

[rufuspaul]

If I could stop aging at like 40 then I would be ok with living until the planet gives out. To much amazing stuff to do, things to learn, books to read, people to meet, etc.


Life on this planet is odd. You've got insects that only live a few months and then you've got trees that are thousands of years old. Hell there was tortoise that died a short while back at a zoo in Australia iirc. Damn thing was a gift from Charles Darwin.

[rufuspaul]

yep

probably not "planet gives out" though lol...that's a long fckin time


Only the first million years. The rest goes by in a flash.

[Jailblazers7]

yep

probably not "planet gives out" though lol...that's a long fckin time

I'd like to have the option of living that long. If I get sick of things that I'd just kill myself. :oldlol:

[brantonli]

Life on this planet is odd. You've got insects that only live a few months and then you've got trees that are thousands of years old. Hell there was tortoise that died a short while back at a zoo in Australia iirc. Damn thing was a gift from Charles Darwin.

I often wonder how time passes for other animals. I know pigeons need 250 frames per second in order to see a series of frames as a moving picture (http://old.qi.com/tv/fry_article.php), so I wonder if that factors into their sense of time, or are they always hungry and so afraid of stuff that they can't even process it.

Or maybe for dogs, they live much shorter lives than us, but when they are all alone at home and the humans are out, does that 6-8 hours pass by quicker or slower for them?

[ROCSteady]

You're the first I've heard to disagree with that

I bet even the lady in the OP agrees and she fcked Abe Lincoln

Our conciousness on the Earth is the most prolonged concept that an individual has actual experience of personally and primarily distinguishing from other great spans of time so it is not short.

[TheReal Kendall]

If living that long were the norm, we wouldn't be having this discussion. As it is, how many 115 year olds do you know? Not to mention that we've been paying that bitch's social security for 53 years!

Damn bro, how you gonna call an old lady a bitch?

[~primetime~]

Our conciousness on the Earth is the most prolonged concept that an individual has actual experience of personally and primarily distinguishing from other great spans of time so it is not short.
yeah no one views that saying from that angle

let me ask you this Roc, do you wish to live longer than the average human life span? yes you say?...well there you go, life is actually shorter than you would like. That is the angle most take when saying that.

[kentatm]

That woman has pubic hairs older than anyone on ISH.

http://i58.tinypic.com/3358ffp.jpg

[ArbitraryWater]

all her best friends most likely died like 30-40 years ago...along with her husband, brothers, sisters, etc. Shes also about to witness the retirement of her grand kids.

Not to mention that her last periods were over 60 years ago

that.... was very depressing

[~primetime~]

that.... was very depressing
it can also be seen as amazingly awesome :confusedshrug:

hope I see my grandkids retire...

[ArbitraryWater]

it can also be seen as amazingly awesome :confusedshrug:

hope I see my grandkids retire...


Well I agree with you on living long.. Id love to reach 100 years.

life being short? hm i guess... theres a lot of stuff to do... a lot, of stuff..

stuff is great. i love stuff

[dude77]

living a long life is great if you're not hindered by any fkd up condition(including mental illness), have resources to live a comfortably good life and have a family(even if certain people die out you should still have grandchildren and other relatives and such) and friends can be had at any time .. otherwise I don't think so ..

it's always cool to see centenarians and supercentenarians like this lady since living to that age is rare .. even more admiration when it's a guy because those are even rarer from what I've gathered

[rufuspaul]

What?:oldlol:


Sorry that concept is over your head.

[ForeverHeat]

The best time to die is in your twenties if you want a legacy. Tupac, Biggie, Kurt Cobain and others all had their legacy severly strengthened by dying so young. No one gives a f*ck about old people.

Life is better short and sweet than long and depressing.

[knickballer]

The best time to die is in your twenties if you want a legacy. Tupac, Biggie, Kurt Cobain and others all had their legacy severly strengthened by dying so young. No one gives a f*ck about old people.

Life is better short and sweet than long and depressing.

Yea, maybe if you're a rock star or a well known celebrity :facepalm

But for 99% of the population no one will care about your "legacy" if you die in you're 20's. What's your legacy going to be? Achieving a high score in Call of Duty?

[ForeverHeat]

Yea, maybe if you're a rock star or a well known celebrity :facepalm

But for 99% of the population no one will care about your "legacy" if you die in you're 20's. What's your legacy going to be? Achieving a high score in Call of Duty?

Yeah you need some kind of importance before you die for it to work like that.

[~primetime~]

Who gives a fck what other people think when your dead?

Life is better "long and sweet" like Hugh Hefner

[ROCSteady]

yeah no one views that saying from that angle

let me ask you this Roc, do you wish to live longer than the average human life span? yes you say?...well there you go, life is actually shorter than you would like. That is the angle most take when saying that.

I view it like that. The saying seems naive to me. Time is very perceptive and not as concrete as most make it seem.

Just because we can study the Earth and stars and history and get an idea of these processes that are literally thousands, millions & even billions of times longer than our existence doesn't mean within ourselves a simple year can seem to never end or be a routine of monotony and misery. Hell, sometimes we perceive a day to be a collection of long never-ending exercises in arbitrary deeds or duty.

No, I do not wish to live longer than avg human life span. I'm cool with going out at like 60 before my body and mind break down to an uncomfortable disassociation to what I was working with previously.

[Andrei89]

I thought Jlauber would take that spot.

I guess I was wrong.

[Dresta]

For you primetime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity

You got some learning to do if you're ever going to see anything aside from your current thought processes, and anything from outside the perspective from which you view things at the present moment in time.

'life is short' is just an everyday platitude with no tangible meaning. But you've always been good at those :applause:

Wasn't 'loving your wife and kids, that's greatness' another one of your sayings? :roll:

[Dresta]

People who try to eek every last inch outta of their lives, persisting on a myriad of medications and hospital visits, while desperately staving off the inevitable, are the true parasites of society, and cost society an incredible amount of money. So why dare nobody criticise those who act in this anti-social manner? Because the sentiment for living as long as possible is a sentiment shared by the majority, that's why.

[RedBlackAttack]

all her best friends most likely died like 30-40 years ago...along with her husband, brothers, sisters, etc. Shes also about to witness the retirement of her grand kids.


That would really have to be the biggest downside. Watching all the people you grew to love die, until you're left basically completely alone.

It's a blessing and a curse, I'm sure.

Just to put things in perspective, she was 7 years old when this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k) was filmed. :eek:

[~primetime~]

For you primetime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity

You got some learning to do if you're ever going to see anything aside from your current thought processes, and anything from outside the perspective from which you view things at the present moment in time.

'life is short' is just an everyday platitude with no tangible meaning. But you've always been good at those :applause:

Wasn't 'loving your wife and kids, that's greatness' another one of your sayings? :roll:
I have no idea what you're talking about with my saying being "loving wife/kids = greatness" but I certainly believe that so I'll own it if you want.

Guess who else has many quotes about "love"? (Hint: open up your own link) :oldlol:

[ihoopallday]

It'd be cool living that long. :lol Well, unless I got life in prison. Say someone received multiple life sentences and lived to be 100, do you think they'd have any chance at parole?

[JohnnySic]

Every year more people are reacing 100 years old. Its really not that unusual anymore. With the advances in health science, medicine, and anti-aging know-how, 100+ will be the norm (except for fat people, smokers, etc, who disregard their health).

[stalkerforlife]

I'd want to live that long if I was financially stable and healthy.

Do you know how much trolling you can get away with as a 90+ year old? I could literally sit down next to someone at Chilli's, eat their food, and get away with it.

[GOBB]

That woman has pubic hairs older than anyone on ISH.

You're a stupid individual

[Dresta]

Every year more people are reacing 100 years old. Its really not that unusual anymore. With the advances in health science, medicine, and anti-aging know-how, 100+ will be the norm (except for fat people, smokers, etc, who disregard their health).
100+ will not be the norm. Almost every hundred year old looks like a walking carcass, and that won't change despite the unalterable faith (and it is 'faith') people like you and primetime seem to be putting in science to stave off mortality. The average life-span may be much higher than it once was, but this does not mean it will not level off, because the human life-span is finite, and the human body really isn't intended to survive 100+ years.

All these advances and we can still barely treat cancer in elderly patients! Nor does the evolutionary nature of cancer itself leave any hope of deriving some kind of universal 'cure' for it. This is hopeless wish-thinking. Not to mention the slew of other diseases that the elderly are prone to that we have either next to no viable treatment for. Most of the medical advances that have been made over the last 50 years have been due to technological rather than actual medical improvements anyway. Science is not going to save you.

[~primetime~]

Dresta the potential to live to 200, 300, forever, etc is there...cellular "aging" is encoded in our DNA and it's purpose is so that creatures can evolve...the ONLY way a species can evolve is for it to DIE...therefor we "age"

it is very possible to remove the aging process...and that day WILL happen, and probably sooner than you think, last article I read on the subject predicted within the next 40 years.

[~primetime~]

Ageing reversed as scientists discover how to turn clock back in mammals (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10529146/Ageing-reversed-as-scientists-discover-how-to-turn-clock-back-in-mammals.html)


The fountain of youth may have been discovered after scientists found they could reverse the aging process in mammals.

Harvard researchers managed to turn the clock back for mice by helping their cellular DNA communicate more efficiently.

After just one week of restoring this communication scientists found two-year-old mice now had the body tissue of a six-month-old.

"In human years, this would be like a 60-year-old converting to a 20-year-old in these specific areas,” said Professor David Sinclair, an expert in genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Researchers discovered that the nuclear DNA – found in the nucleus of a cell – and the Mitochondrial DNA – found in other parts of the cell – stop communicating as we age.


Prof Sinclair added: "The ageing process we discovered is like a married couple - when they are young, they communicate well, but over time, living in close quarters for many years, communication breaks down.

"And just like with a couple, restoring communication solved the problem.

"There's clearly much more work to be done here, but if these results stand, then many aspects of ageing may be reversible if caught early."

had not read that one...

[bladefd]

Do we have the right to play 'god' by removing the aging process? Not only would we play 'god', but we WOULD be gods if we can stop aging (of course, diseases would still exist).

Also, who would have access to that? Every human or would certain people have more access than others? Would money be a factor? What if the richest stay richest for all of eternity while the genes of everyone outside the 1% would be eliminated from human DNA pool? Now, we're entering questions not of ethnic cleansing but perhaps a species cleansing.

Pretty scary stuff if you think about it.

[Dresta]

Dresta the potential to live to 200, 300, forever, etc is there...cellular "aging" is encoded in our DNA and it's purpose is so that creatures can evolve...the ONLY way a species can evolve is for it to DIE...therefor we "age"

it is very possible to remove the aging process...and that day WILL happen, and probably sooner than you think, last article I read on the subject predicted within the next 40 years.
So basically, to avoid death we have to destroy the progenitor and cultivator of life itself? Sounds likely. You know that 'prediction' was plucked out of thin air, right?

To quote your article that ignores the many complexities such an attempt to extend this principle to human beings would entail:

'"There's clearly much more work to be done here, but if these results stand, then many aspects of ageing may be reversible if caught early."'

Could you get a more ambiguous statement, seriously? Have these results even been recreated, or is it just a small, relatively unimportant study that has been blown up by the media because it has mass popular appeal?

Keep dreamin those dreams :applause:

[brantonli]

Do we have the right to play 'god' by removing the aging process? Not only would we play 'god', but we WOULD be gods if we can stop aging (of course, diseases would still exist).

Also, who would have access to that? Every human or would certain people have more access than others? Would money be a factor? What if the richest stay richest for all of eternity while the genes of everyone outside the 1% would be eliminated from human DNA pool? Now, we're entering questions not of ethnic cleansing but perhaps a species cleansing.

Pretty scary stuff if you think about it.

We've been playing with the ageing process for centuries, it's just that we thought of it as 'health' rather than longevity. 1000 years ago, asking if humans could fly or talk to each other over great distances would've been seen as god-like powers. I see fundamentally altering our DNA as only the next logical step. And why would the people who are not in the top 1% die out? Even if the super-rich find some way to live an incredibly long life, it's not like that somehow means poorer people will die quicker or have less children. Indeed, it's not like the 100+ year old are full of billionaires, if anything, it's still very luck dependent on how old you can get.

It's a similar misconception like in cloning, people thought cloning was a radically new technology (which it is for animals), but in truth we have been cloning plants for millennia (nearly all the bananas we eat are actually clones of one another, identical in DNA).

[~primetime~]

So basically, to avoid death we have to destroy the progenitor and cultivator of life itself? Sounds likely. You know that 'prediction' was plucked out of thin air, right?

To quote your article that ignores the many complexities such an attempt to extend this principle to human beings would entail:

'"There's clearly much more work to be done here, but if these results stand, then many aspects of ageing may be reversible if caught early."'

Could you get a more ambiguous statement, seriously? Have these results even been recreated, or is it just a small, relatively unimportant study that has been blown up by the media because it has mass popular appeal?

Keep dreamin those dreams :applause:
Altering our DNA could (and WILL eventually IMO) lead to drastically slowing down the aging process, or perhaps removing it all together. yes

Obviously there is a lot involved in this, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility that something tangible could kick off in 40-50 years.

[~primetime~]

This was on CNN today:

Live to 100: Number of centenarians has doubled (http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/04/health/centenarian-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)



(CNN) -- It is Her Majesty's custom to send a personal greeting to her subjects on their 100th birthdays. These days the Queen of England has a lot more letters to write.

That's because a record number of people are living to 100 and beyond in the United Kingdom -- and worldwide. In fact, one-third of babies born in the UK in 2013 are expected to live to 100, according to their Office of National Statistics. In the United States, the population has seen similar trends.

As this centenarian population grows, scientists want a better understanding of how and why those people do eventually die.

A new study finds that these 100+ types are more likely to have "old age" listed as their cause of death than chronic diseases, according to lead author Dr. Catherine Evans.

The study, published in the most recent edition of PLOS Medicine, finds that most centenarians die from pneumonia or general frailty rather than cancer or heart disease. Chronic diseases are more likely to kill people who only make it to their 80s and 90s.

To get at this information, Evans examined data from the death records of people in the United Kingdom who died between 2001 and 2010. She looked at a group of 35,867 people who were between 100 and 115 when they died. The median age of death was 101.

Evans said she was surprised at how large that 100+ population is. It has nearly doubled every decade since the 1950s in the UK. Globally the 100+ population is projected to grow to about 18 million people by the end of the century.

[~primetime~]

100 IS becoming the "norm"...read that CNN article I just posted...1/3rd of those born today are expected to hit the 100 mark

and a lot of them aren't "mentally dead" either...many are fully functional, the woman in the OP is supposedly fully functional

at 85 they were probably like the average 65 year old just entering retirement

[~primetime~]

Fully functional doesnt mean you're not mentally dead. She probably has no real idea what's going on. Go to a "retirement" home and you'll see plenty of fully functional people who arent there mentally.
some aren't, but some are...there are people that work till 85 dude

Stan Lee is 91 and still travels the country for Comic-Con making speeches and such...he comes off 100% "there"

and he is well off, he does it just for the love of it

[~primetime~]

http://live2100.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fauja-singh-exercise-age.jpg


Fauja Singh ^^^

ran a MARATHON at 100 years old, something most here have never been able to do :oldlol:

[rufuspaul]

walked*

and 26 miles of anything sucks dick

stupid old fvk


:roll: