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Oldest Women

Jeanne Louise Calment of Arles, France was the world's longest living person. Jeanne was born on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997. Her height was 4'11" (1.50m). Jeanne died at the age of 122 in a nursing home in Arles. She lived 122 years and 164 days (44,724 days total). Jeanne's name appears in the Guinness Book of World Records. At age 121, she released her two CDs, one in French and another in English titled, Maitresse du Temps (Time's Mistress). During the end stage, she became blind, she could not hear properly and was confined to a wheelchair but was in high spirits and mentally alert. Interesting fact is that Jeanne smoked cigarettes until the age of 117.


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wonderer
How could that be? Smoke until 117 years? She started smoking at what age??

This is interesting... I wont quit smoking then :)
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wonderer at 11:45PM, Oct 20th 2009.
josh
just think how long she would have lived if shee hadent smoked
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josh at 07:52PM, Oct 30th 2009.
Jeanne Marie Louise
hey, I'm called Jeanne Marie Louise, do you think I could live as long!
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Jeanne Marie Louise at 02:42PM, Nov 1st 2009.
Michael.Kan
O my god is that real i wish i could live that live.Plz.
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Michael.Kan at 04:41AM, Nov 3rd 2009.
Joey
My grandfather smoked from age eleven to eighty three years old. He never once had a lung or breathing problem.
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Joey at 01:22AM, Nov 4th 2009.
Jenn
Let's be reasonable here, for the first 50-70 years of her life, cigarettes weren't as bad as they are today. If you smoked today's cigarettes from the age of let's say, 15 , you'd barely make it to 80. Take the fact that she smoked for approx 80 years with a grain of salt people.
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Jenn at 12:53PM, Nov 12th 2009.
Tammy Clamborrows
I heard that she could do 100 pushups until age 90 & ate 50 lbs a bacon a day. I wish that she knew my name.
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Tammy Clamborrows at 01:03PM, Nov 13th 2009.
JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING PERSON
This is a crazy story!!!how old would she be today?its very interesting how people live.Do you have to be super healthy?I doubt it she smoked most of her life.How did she die anyways because i want to go that way too then[:
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JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING PERSON at 03:57PM, Feb 8th 2010.
Dan
Yeah, thats a long life..

I wanna go like my grandfather... in his sleep. Not like the screaming passengers in his car!
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Dan at 08:55PM, Feb 9th 2010.

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