• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    They probably have dementia and can no longer remember the fantastic fun times they had in their 20s … in 1910s Russia!

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/oldest-living-person-says-life-12545676

    If she can survive a Russian monarchy, a Russian revolution, the First World War, the Second World war and Nazi invasion, Russian Communist Authoritarianism, forced relocation to Siberia, Soviet government control, the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian oligarchs and modern day Social Media … I think we can survive what is happening today.

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      29 days ago

      Koku Istambulova died in 2019, at the reported age of 129. Her age was never officially validated.

      Between 128 and 129, she apparently remembered exactly one happy day, according to the daily mail, which I will not link to as I don’t want to give them traffic, but quoting:

      Koku made headlines last year (2018) by saying she had only lived a single happy day in her long life - when she entered the home she built with her own hands on return from exile in Kazakhstan