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Saeng Mankharat, who lives in a village in northeastern Thailand, has an ID card listing her date of birth as September 18, 1896 — if true, that would make her 130 years old, a full 13 years older than the current record holder for world’s oldest person. Locals have hailed her as a “super-centenarian,” and she’s become an overnight sensation. Over on 5channel, the thread lit up with talk about the reliability of extreme-age claims — from users reminiscing about their own grandparents born in the Meiji era to the case of Shigechiyo Izumi, whose recorded age was reportedly thrown off by a family-registry mix-up.
‘130-Year-Old’ Grandma, 13 Years Older Than the World’s Oldest Person — ID Card Reading ‘1896’ Discovered By Chance, Draws Huge Attention in Thailand
In a quiet village in northeastern Thailand, a “super-centenarian” is now drawing attention.
The worn ID card belonging to Saeng Mankharat lists her date of birth as “September 18, 1896.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Everything already hurts everywhere — why would I want to live twice this long?
I'm 38 and feel exactly that, so yeah, I already want to disappear
Big same
Your body just suddenly falls apart once you hit your 40s
Life's funny precisely because creatures like us end up living 120 years
https://imgur.com/5foChHO.jpeg
Ladies like this are gonna end up as the protagonist of Granny GTA someday — what a scary era we live in
having grandparents born in the Meiji era (1868–1912) — mine included —
wasn't the least bit unusual.
Before I knew it, they'd basically all disappeared.
Both my parents worked, so I was raised by my grandma, who was born in the Meiji era
I loved hearing her stories about her own grandfather fighting in the Boshin War (1868–69)
Once I asked her to tell me a war story, and she said "the earlier one or the recent one?" I said the recent one, and she started going on about "the Russkies," so I figured she meant the Russo-Japanese War
Then I saw a photo of her from around the Pacific War era, and she was already a wrinkled old lady — that threw me
So Tokugawa Yoshinobu was still alive when they were born.
Figured it was about time, but wow, down to the last one
Guess it'll be in the news soon
It's not really about biology
Pathologically speaking, the ceiling is more like 125, and among people alive today, roughly 1 in 10 million might have the potential to live past 120
Happens all the time in Thailand
And thus, Perfume was born (riffing on the classic "and that's how X was born" meme format, joking she's tied to the J-pop group)
This one gives off the same vibe
Wouldn't be surprised if she's being mixed up with one of her sisters or something
Japan's earliest emperors were absurdly long-lived too
"His Excellency"?
Makes no sense to me
Can't believe you don't know who His Excellency is
Guwahahahahahaha
It's not a title of respect, it's a nickname
That's off by like 300 years
More like the era of Commodore Perry
Guess the Edo period was shorter than I thought!
https://img.cf.47news.jp/public/photo/599f34de3890363b87bd17cd47840c15/photo.jpg
These days there are plenty of sharper, sturdier 100-year-olds
who can still climb stairs and say their back doesn't even hurt
Ah, so that makes him 105
Background and Key Points
Extreme-age claims can’t be confirmed from a single document like an ID card or family registry alone. Certifying bodies such as Guinness World Records typically require not just a birth certificate but a continuous paper trail spanning a person’s entire life, and regions that have seen more upheaval in governance or record-keeping tend to produce more age claims that are hard to verify. The case of Shigechiyo Izumi, which came up in the thread, is a good example: his family registry listed him as 120, but it’s been suggested that because he inherited another, deceased person’s registry through adoption, his recorded age may have been inflated by more than a decade. Likewise, this claim of 130 years can’t be settled by the ID card alone — independent verification will be the key question going forward.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5channel (Breaking News Plus) thread “‘130-Year-Old’ Grandma, 13 Years Older Than the World’s Oldest Person — ID Card Reading ‘1896’ Discovered By Chance, Draws Huge Attention in Thailand.”
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