Tuesday, December 12, 2006

World's oldest person dies at 116

How did she do it, I mean to survive to the age of 116? Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was the world's oldest person.

The infant mortality rate, the probability of a child dying before the first year of live in Sudan is 62/1,000. The life expectancy is a mere 57 years!

Yet here is a human like us who lived to be 116 and had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren!

5 comments:

Precious said...

Wow.. But I'm not sure I wanna live that long!!

Path2Hope said...

You know, my first thought was, 'how would this woman rate her life'? I wonder what she thought of the changes that took place in her lifetime...

Black Kush said...

True Precious! In Africa, when you get really old, life can be nasty. Just the 17's is fine with me if I manage to get there!

Black Kush said...

I meant 70's!

Precious said...

As a woman.. Young woman now :P lol I think the 50z are enough! LOL.. wat kinda life will I enjoy after that!