Happy Hongo - Omedetou

[kurohinge1]

For those of you near Kagoshima, don't forget to wish Hongo-chan a Happy 116th Birthday on the 16th.

115 going on 116 ... Kamato Hongo (left) chats with her daughter Shizue Kurauchi at her home in Kagoshima, southern Japan. Hongo, who is named in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person in the world, will turn 116 on September 16. Photo: AFP

Japan's oldest person lives in 2-day sleep, 2-day play cycle

Japan's oldest person Kamato Hongo, 115, attributes her longevity to a unique lifestyle of sleeping for two straight days followed by two days of activity.

I tried this once, but my boss wasn't impressed and seemed likely to shorten my life if I continued the practice.

[Big Booger]

116 years... what an extended life. I actually wonder about her quality of life. Does she walk on her own? Can she feed herself?

I wonder if more and more people will live to be that age in the future.

Well, I wish her the best on her 116th birthday.

[Taro Toporific]

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Japan's oldest person lives in 2-day sleep, 2-day play cycle

I'm sure what's happening with Hongo-chan as it is with most ultra-elderly persons is that NOT that she's having sleep for two straight days followed by two days of activity ----rather, she's sleeping with one-eye open for two days and then more "active" for two days with catnaps every 20 minutes. Of the six or seven 100yrs+ people I've observed in the hospital over months, most were caught in a twilight of consciousness and were slipping in and out all the time. They could appear lucid when addressed directly, but for the most part they were off in an alt-dreamworld. Hey, come to think it, I'm in an alt-dreamworld here in the warm fetid bowels of Japan Inc right after lunch zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[GomiGirl]

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Japan's oldest person lives in 2-day sleep, 2-day play cycle

I'm sure what's happening with Hongo-chan as it is with most ultra-elderly persons is that NOT that she's having sleep for two straight days followed by two days of activity ----rather, she's sleeping with one-eye open for two days and then more "active" for two days with catnaps every 20 minutes. Of the six or seven 100yrs+ people I've observed in the hospital over months, most were caught in a twilight of consciousness and were slipping in and out all the time. They could appear lucid when addressed directly, but for the most part they were off in an alt-dreamworld. Hey, come to think it, I'm in an alt-dreamworld here in the warm fetid bowels of Japan Inc right after lunch zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I don't know about the other FG's here - but I don't think that I want to live until I am 116.. not unless I have the same quality of life as say a 60 year old.. (well if I had said 25 you would have all laffed at me!!)

Plus I don't think I have enough in my superannuation to last that long.. I will have to start topping up now!!

No thanks - I think about 90 or so would suit me just fine!!

[GomiGirl]

"Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morituri Salutamus

Handsome Chap isn't he..

[ramchop]

Centenarians to surpass 20,000 mark this month

The number of centenarians in Japan is expected to reach a record 20,561 by the end of September, topping the 20,000 mark for the first time, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Tuesday.

[American Oyaji]

What happened to Gin-san and Kin-san. I know one of them died. Not sure about her sister.

[Big Booger]

"Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morituri Salutamus

Lovely quote.

I often wonder why scientists or geneticists can't come up with drugs or injections to make cells repair themselves. I mean if they could come up with a nanobot/virus that directed cells to repair themselves indefinitely, we could practically live forever. Aside from bodily harm or injury.

I wait for the day that something like this is put out on the market. It will sell like crack.

This type thing always reminds me of the "Outer Limits" Episode where the man injects himself with nanobots, and they can't be turned off. He eventually grows gills, a new set of eyes in the back of his, becomes able to overcome nearly everything that the nanobots consider as a weakness... Freaky really,

[kurohinge1]

[Big Booger]

I have no ethical qualm about extending life.. most likely because I am not religious and have no bias against improving life at the cost of "removing God" from the equation.

[Taro Toporific]

What happened to Gin-san and Kin-san. I know one of them died. Not sure about her sister.

Gin-san (age 108) and Kin-san (age 107) kicked in 2001 and 2000, respectively.
http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00215.html

[American Oyaji]

Hey thanks Taro!

I figured it would be you or Steve to clear that one up.


As for living forever. These bodies are temporary, but our souls live forever.

When I get to heaven, I will get a perfect body. Can't wait for that.

[Jack]

I am with GG on this one. Not sure that I want to live till I am 116. Outliving my kids and maybe even their kids means one is alone in this world. This lady is lucky to still have her daughter with her. But, man has that lady seen history!!

[kotatsuneko]

anything over 30 is a bonus imho

having died before in my late teens for around 2 minutes (bike crash), can tell you there is no afterlife..

if i get to 64 ill consider myself extremely lucky ^^

[Big Booger]

How can you be sure kotatsu that this is your afterlife.. maybe you were sent back to live a little longer, in hopes you would heal your wicked ways..

j/k

[Taro Toporific]

...having died before in my late teens for around 2 minutes (bike crash), can tell you there is no afterlife..

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-IT! This means the FG Forum has TWO---yep count 'em 2-- FDPs (Formerly Dead Persons)!

I had to second Kots' observation of death. I was yanked off life support in 1973 and "pronounced". I've even got a Death Certificate. I found death to be rather pleasant because <surprise> if you're dead you feel no pain and as you die you feel less of everything. That bogus "Beautiful Light at the End of the Tunnel" effect was just my brain shutting down from the lack of blood O2---really its no different than yanking out the plug on a TV and watching the picture shink to a single bright point on the screen.

[kotatsuneko]

last thing i remember is black of the taxi, and my teeth going thru the skin below my lower lip

then coming too, with one of those cardboard sick bowls next to my head, and all my family around me, asleep in the hospital

an apology is perhaps needed here, - i experienced no afterlife even though officially i did indeed die, and come back to life - but thats just my experience, having never been religious thanks to open minded parents in the first place - perhaps if you are religious then you indeed do have an afterlife - i dont know.. i just wanted to state my real death experience, not belittle anyone elses beliefs here.

re the 72 virgins thing - hasnt that been accounted for in a mis translation of a syrian dialect - whereas in reality it is virgin fruit - berries or something = that is promised, not virgins as in women?

anyhow, a sound happy birthday to Oyaji come friday!

its all downhill from 21 anyhows! ^^

[vvx]

an apology is perhaps needed here, - i experienced no afterlife even though officially i did indeed die, and come back to life - but thats just my experience,

Officially by law, or officially by God?