Master Obit

A lot of people seem to have this goal. It rather reminds me of a scene from Open All Hours Granville: You won't live forever, you know. Arkwright: Well I'm going to give it a damn good try, aren't you?

Or people who were 18 and signed up later on in the war. They'd be among the world's oldest, but it's possible and we are talking about the very last ones.

I think I'd be afraid to actually sign up for it, but at the same time I don't want to rumble on in to my nineties and hundreds if I've no reasonable quality of life and need 36 tablets a day just to keep my battery at 1% instead of 0%. We all die at some point and I'd rather die in control than waste away.

Antony Ernest Brown died 22/03/2021 in Dorset Paul Williamson there is no death registered on GRO 1984 to date, so either alive or moved outside England/Wales, ditto with Jeffrey Wallace Gardiner. I can't even find a birth record for Tommy Mann, so guessing that his real name was different.

Barbara Barker (née Ashcroft) does appear to still be alive. Her husband's date of death is wrong though (Ken Barker died 20/06/1998, not 24/06/1998)

*Grumbles vigorously* For the record, the ESO are terrific. I just wanted to be the one to announce this on here.

Who piggybacked on my discovery. They got that information as a result of me. @Ulitzer95 will testify that I informed him of this privately way before the ESO updated this, I was just waiting for OiB to recognise it before I mentioned the death.

I wonder what footballer has the longest unbroken "hit" streak. It stands to reason that there were be many footballers who only scored one goal, and it so happened that a major celebrity died the same day/the day after, and there will surely be quite a few two and three timers, but what about four, five, six, even more? Obviously the Aaron Ramsey thing is clearly nonsense, but it does pose an interesting problem of which footballer has the longest streak. It's probably not really possible to find out, though.

She actually tied her age in days three days ago (Annie Jennings lived through fewer leap years).

"Virgin never had sex" Sounds like the average 110club member.

We're a fairly unusual bunch of people here, and there are a lot of genuinely fantastic people within. We don't seem to have a topic that really celebrates this, so I decided to make one that encapsulates our quirks. Give your interesting hobbies and talents here. Lets get some discussion going. Personally, I'm a bit of a sucker for things I can collect. Coins and banknotes have always been my first love, but I also have some rather more quirky collections, including: - Official congratulations sent out by the monarch for birthdays/wedding anniversaries (links rather well with my research, my pride being a letter sent in 1932 to a lady turning 100) - Antique registration certificates (predominantly death certificates) - my main fascination here being the beautiful cursive writing of registrars and the glimpse in to medical history that they offer I guess my most unusual talent, if you can call it that, is that I can recognise a British coin, and the possible years of mintage, from the sound it makes when dropped on the ground. I've not actively practised this, but a lifetime of obsessing over coins means I can recognise their distinct sounds as a result of their metal compositions. I can also perform difficult calculations mentally, which I ascribe to autism (in fact, I guess you could ascribe all of the above to that...)

An interesting little accumulation - please share more!

Very clearly a troll, or possibly his brain has been obliterated in some tragic accident.

Eh, I don't see anything there that suggests he's at death's door. He's old and very beloved, of course they'll have a planned press release for when he goes. He could go tomorrow, he could live for a good few years - 17 is old but not absolutely ancient for a cat. This screams of a complete non-story that has been written for the sake of having an article. I'm pretty sure the DL has to be entirely people - if not then I'm sure they'd have had Kabosu on it for a good few years.

We will probably get lots of coverage - he seems to enjoy the publicity.

You'd run out of books to read and it'd do a number on your sex life. The biggest consequences would probably be mental (stuck in a confined space for so long with a great deal of uncertainty surrounding when you'll return home). You also aren't weight-bearing, so this is likely to lead to bone and muscle wastage (akin to if you spent months just lying on a couch). The food probably wouldn't be nice to eat for such a long period (especially with a diminished sense of taste due to being at such a high altitude), but I don't think that would have any long-term consequences.

I don't know why people think that Trump's parents living to 93 and 88 is an indication that he's going to live a very long life. He has a dreadfully unhealthy lifestyle, looks like a Halloween pumpkin and is clearly not all there mentally. I'd be amazed if he even sees mid-80s. "Good genes" isn't as influential as people think. Look at all the supercentenarians out there who outlived all their children. The daughter of the Tarrants (one of Britain's oldest couples - died at 110 and 102) didn't even make 80. A healthy lifestyle is much more important. Even if "good genes" were massively important, 93 and 88 aren't really that insane to the level that you'd think they'd pull him that much. As for "still looks 68", give me a break...

Yes. Had quite a few recently.

Guy in my profile picture has picked the time just after my birthday to need urgent, expensive dental treatment. Love the guy to bits so I'll happily shell out so he isn't in pain, I just hope that there are no complications. He's high up in age now (he was 17 earlier this year, so he's beaten about 80% of cats by getting there) so these things worry me more than they might have done in the past.

There's a serious level of strangeness on there. If you want a laugh, look at the "coincidences" thread. "X person has a surname beginning with C, and their predecessor as 15th-oldest person in France also had a surname beginning with C. They lived roughly 100 miles apart, which is C in Roman numerals. Amazing!"

Nabi Tajima looked like she was a breeze away from death for years. I don't think Tomiko will challenge records but I never write the Japanese off.

She's Japanese though. They have figured out a way of making people last longer.

Might be more appropriate to post this in the dying bigots thread.

Swatting the bees like his political opponents.

Big companies find a way of exploiting situations to make even more money. Shock.