World’s oldest man
Can you imagine the strength of this man’s constitution? Phenomenal:
A 112-year-old Holocaust survivor has officially been named the oldest living man in the world.
Israel Kristal was born on September 15, 1903, and became the record holder today, at the age of 112 years and 178 days, Guinness World Records confirmed to ABC News.
“I don’t know the secret for long life,” Kristal said upon achieving the title. “I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never know the reasons why. There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive. All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost.”…
After the Nazis invaded Poland, Kristal was moved into the Lé³dz ghetto with his family in 1939. Four years later, he was sent to Auschwitz.
Kristal survived the camp, but lost his wife, Chaja Feige Frucht and their two children.
He remarried, had more children, moved to Israel, and this is his family today:
Rebuilding.
I call BS. Oldest man in the world, my arse.
All Guinness would have to do to prove this guy a fraud is go to the Social Security administration database, where a recent IG report found there are over 6.5 million people at least 112 years in this country alone, lots of whom are still cashing their benefits checks, opening new bank accounts and getting replacement SS cards..
Geokstr,
Did you know the average age of a person with an address in Chicago is 101?
God bless his wonderful family!
That is a testament to perseverance.
geokstr:
Guinness goes to a lot of trouble to authenticate its “oldest” category.
Are you doubting that there are outliers who might reach the age of 112? And that they would have documented births? Why is this so hard to accept?
Neo:
I don’t doubt a bit that he’s 112. Good on him. There are documented cases of people living even longer.
I was employing a bit of sarcasm to show how stupid, wasteful and incompetent our federal government is to not only have 6.5 million active SS number in their database for people 112 and older, but to keep sending out checks to some of them. It’s ludicrous.
This issue was just on 60 minutes IIRC, and they talked to one woman who collected $180,000 since her mom died three decades ago.
I have 35 years experience in corporate accounting and data-mining was one of my specialties. A sane system has automatic exception reporting that should flag something like this immediately. All you should need is one example to be found to make somebody say “Uh-oh. I better check to see if there’s more.”
On an even more sobering note, if there’s 6.5 million 112+ still in the database, the likelihood is that there are ten million more who died but would only show up as 100-111, another 15 million 90-99, etc.
I apologize if you thought I was actually criticizing this guy, but I was born with an enlarged sarcasm gland. I tried to write this over-the-top so no one would think it was serious.
Not to take anything away from this remarkable guy, but the “oldest man in the world” thing is dubious in the extreme, no matter how much trouble Guinness supposedly goes to. There are now 7.5 billion people on earth. Please.
Let’s re-frame that for a moment to put such longevity into a U.S. perspective.
When he was born, Teddy Roosevelt was president. He has lived through the presidencies of 20 out of 44 individual presidents (T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, F.D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, G. W. Bush and Barack Obama) and it appears that he may well increase that number to 21 out of 45.
Sine he is an Israeli Jew watch the Progressives claim he is ring selfish for living so long and taking up resources from
The “poor Palestinians”.
He would not even be the oldest voter in Chicago! Is that geokstr’s point?
This is an inspiring story of survival and overcoming a horrible ordeal, and going on afterwards to live a long and productive life. And, what a family!
Bookworm’s mother died this week, and Book describes some of the similar things she went through. It appears that the way you choose to look at things can be very different.
I’ve been feeling my age (not physically–more in terms of life experience), but these reports make me realize that there can be a lot ahead of me. Be Prepared.
That’s nothing, geokstr — I’m from Philly, and in Philadelphia, people vote AFTER they’re dead!
Great job on being pro-life — in practice! So many babies in the photo … Great Grandkids? and Great-Great-Grandkinds?
Wish they’d had the stats on how many, and how many still lived — I’d guess his second wife has already died, probably most of his children, too, tho it’s quite unclear how many he had in Israel (moved with 1 kid at age 47 — still time for a few more).
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His family does not like to state the number of his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren for fear of the “evil eye.”
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.708287
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The fraud in SS is terrible, along with voting rolls.
I also read a note on how, as more folks are living longer, that mostly genetic barrier to longer life means that “oldest man / oldest woman” as a title will likely be held for shorter time periods by the next living in line, after the current title holder dies.
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-keeps-dying/
“more people than ever are clustering at the outer edge of human aging and that the tenure of the world’s oldest living person isn’t as long as it used to be.”
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