world's oldest person dies

[suegypt]

What feeling does that evoke for you?

Comments

[cathy_02]

I rejoice for the NEW world's oldest person who has been waiting patiently in the wings for their moment of glory.

[suegypt]

Gee, I hope the new-old person has at least one photo op for blowing out candles on a cake. Maybe when you've lived that long, living that long is its own reward?

[admnaismith]

WHAT! They're wrong! I'm not dead yet! I feel happy...I think I'll go for a walk...

bring outcha dead! bring outcha dead!

[suegypt]

LOL

[mothwentbad]

The world's youngest person is born so much more often. There's probably some way to model these rates.

[suegypt]

Come to think of it, the world's youngest person also dies much more often.

[mothwentbad]

Maybe. I don't know. This depends on a careful analysis based on when you define someone to be a person. If it's very close to when someone often dies, then yes. Otherwise, new people are made so rapidly that it might be rare for the world's youngest person to die.

[suegypt]

Yeah, in this instance, I'm defining "person" as someone born alive. If there are just 2 newborns who die seconds after birth, then that's one more than 1 oldest person dying every year or so (I was meaning a lot more "youngests" die than "oldests," not than are born. Of course, millions more are born than die in the first seconds of life, we can be sure of that.).

[ellisbell]

It sounds like a riddle.

[suegypt]

Yeah, I'm waiting for today's headline to be "World's Oldest Person Lives"

heh heh

[artmonkeygirl]

I'm always amazed that there are human beings that make it to 115 - 120.

[suegypt]

Not sure i'd want to go that long. Not sure at all.