A Montana man thought to be the world's oldest [documented] man celebrates his 113th birthday today. Walter Breuning (born on this day in 1896) will celebrate with a party today.- World's oldest men (8/09)
The event is to be held at the Rainbow Retirement Community in Great Falls, and Gov. Brian Schweitzer is expected to attend. Mr. Breuning was born in Melrose, Minnesota but moved to Montana in 1918 worked for the railroad for 50 years. Source- You're as young as your health: garynull.com
- Buddhist cause of longevity: abstaining from killing and harming in the past. Both taking life and injuring others lead one to be sickly and short lived IF and when one gets the chance to be reborn in the human world again. (These grave offenses tend to lead to inferior forms of rebirth -- in the Great Waste of unfortunate subhuman destinations).
The oldest person in the world is now Kama Chinen, 114, who lives in Japan, according to Dr. L. Stephen Coles of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks claims of extreme old age. Chinen was born May 10, 1895, Coles said. The oldest person who has ever lived is Jeanne-Louise Calment, according to Coles. She was 122 when she died Aug. 4, 1997, in Arles, France.
