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Was she really 132?
World’s ‘oldest ever person’ Antisa Khvichava dies in remote Georgian village
A Georgian woman who claimed to be 132-years-old – making her the world’s oldest human being ever – has died.
Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born on 8 July 1880, and had a Soviet-era passport and documentation to that effect, but her age was contested and never officially proven.
She lived in the remote village of Sachino in north-west Georgia with her 42-year-old grandson and claimed to have retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85.
Mrs Khvichava claimed to be just 10-years younger than Russia’s first communist leader Vladimir Lenin and to have been born a year before the death of celebrated Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
She said she had 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren and reportedly attributed her longevity and good health to drinking a small amount of local brandy every day.
mac
October 9th, 2012
yah and bet all her food was organic ate tons of fruit and vegetables took omega 3″s and 6″s . Juiced daily, exercised drank 8 glasses of water daily. Took multi vitamins and saw her naturopath daily. Oh and she walked to Whole Foods everyday even through blinding snow.
Damn Lawyers
October 9th, 2012
“tea and corn picker”
And calling her that is not racist how?
Doc
October 9th, 2012
Looks more realistic than Obama’s Birth Certificate!
Poonces
October 9th, 2012
132? They must have some miraculous peas in former Sovietville.
Corona
October 9th, 2012
“Please pass the Chernobyl beans.”
dba_vagabond_trader
October 9th, 2012
Wasn’t there an old commercial extolling the virtues of yogurt for the amazing longevity of Georgian folk?
dba_vagabond_trader
October 9th, 2012
Papadoc
October 9th, 2012
The Georgians were notorious for exaggerating their ages. No human has ever been documented to be older than 121 years. Most claims such as this one, when investigated, are found to be false, with such documents as do exist actually referring to a dead aunt or uncle, adding 20-40 years to the apparent age.
Whiterok
October 9th, 2012
Can’t they solve this with some old fashioned carbon dating?
Racist
October 10th, 2012
I beg to differ! The Word of God documents numerous individuals as living to be as old as 900! Methuselah in fact lived to be 969 yrs old! Top That!