Sakhan Dosova of Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan has documents that say she will celebrate her 130th birthday on Friday. Census officials discovered that her documents all agree that her birthdate is March 27, 1879. Records show she was on the books as 47 years old when a census was taken under the Stalinist regime in 1926.
Other officials are not so sure.
Dosova attributes her longevity to a sense of humor. Link -via Unique Daily
Nailya Dosayeva, head of social and demographical department of Karaganga regional statistics bureau, said there is no doubt that her claim is authentic.
'Sakhan Dosova was found during our census held in February and March. She has an old passport and documents which are genuine, and based on these we can judge her age as being correct.'
The local mayor Islam Togaybayev went to visit her 'to personally congratulate her on such an achievement and show his respect', said his spokesman.
Other officials are not so sure.
Some Kazakh bureaucrats want more checks to be done to ascertain the accuracy of her claim, pointing out that birth records in Kazakhstan in the 19th century are notoriously unreliable.
'We can see that this is turning into a big story and for the sake of our country, we need to be sure her claim is correct,' said one official.
According to one version of her life, she must have given birth to several children over the age of 60, he said.
'There is no doubt she is very old. But is she really 130? Or was there a white lie long ago which was never corrected? We need to find out.'
Dosova attributes her longevity to a sense of humor. Link -via Unique Daily
In short, I rather doubt the 130 years claim (though maybe in northern Kazakhstan life is so boring it just seems to have been that long!)
No wonder they live forever, they don't do anything. It's hard to have an accident if you're just sitting in a chair all day. Their metabolisms probably slow down like a hibernating bear.
Just once it would be cool to hear about someone that lives to 115 that actually manages to pack two or three whole lifetimes worth of experience into that extended lifespan. Like yeah, I was an architect, but then I turned 70 and realized I wanted to be a surgeon or a stunt pilot. I trained for 8 years and still had a 30 year career. Bravo, two lives packed into one.
Some scholars are pretty old, but they don't really have to learn new things. They're basically coasting on 70 years of accumulated reading. Most of it probably forgotten, but when you've read 20 times as much as the average person that doesn't matter much.
But almost no old people can really learn anything new, and the older you are the worse it gets. A 15 year old boy can plausibly pick up a guitar for his first time, and re-invent rock music within 5 years. A lot of rock musicians are famous within 10 years of the first time they practiced. A 70 year old never does that.
A 10 year old boy exposed to his first real math equations can be at the forefront of some crazy new technical discipline at MIT within 10 years. A 70 year old never does that.
Once you're old, you are either coasting on the niche you made for yourself while you were young, or you're pretty much done. An 80 year old is an 120 year old is a 300 year old.
Whats your point? Are you letting us know that you plan on dying before 80 to prevent yourself from feeling useless?
Lifespan changes when your lifestyle changes.
Better Lifestyle longer lifespan.
There is a video about her of course her pic would be real.
And your BLIND if you think she looks around 80.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164503/Is-woman-really-old-LIGHT-BULB-Oldest-person-world-set-celebrate-130th-birthday.html