5d ago

What is the oldest age anyone in your family has lived to?

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No one made it to 60 gee thanks ALS and cancer. I spent half my life expectancy hating myself and being abused and now either one of those shits will take everything from me as soon as I finally cut ties with family. Sister died at 39, dad died at 56, grandparents also died in their 50s bro I should cut my losses
- That sounds terrifying. Nevertheless, know that you are never outside being loved, no matter what those near to you would insist.

Great-grandma was 103 when she died, she was born in 1899 and saw so many changes in her life. I remember her sitting on the porch smoking her pipe and telling me of her life. Even when she was very old she still took delight in so many things. Her favorite in the whole world was her television. As a teenager, she would sneak of to watch movies at the local cinema, that was just a room with a bunch of chairs set up. So when televisions came out she was over the moon. My grandmas both lived to 100, grandma died in March this year. I doubt I will live that long what with plastic in our bodies and brains.
- What a century to be alive for! She saw so many things, both good and bad, and the amount of changes!
- Plastics may be invading our lives now, but her time wasn’t without pollutants like lead or asbestos. We should try to be healthy despite the pollution

My moms uncle lived to 115. It was a painful bed ridden last 5 years, but he made it.

I have several direct antecedents that lived over 100. The last was my paternal grandmother, who died in 2004 at the age of 103. She was born in 1901 and outlived 3 of her 6 children (one child was stillborn). Her last child, my Dad, died just this past February at the age of 88. He was the youngest.

94 is the oldest relative I’m aware of. It was my great grandfather. Staying active his whole life, a simple diet, and a generally positive outlook seems to have been the key.
Most of my family say I’m a lot like him!

99 years and ten months for my great grandma. She was in fairly good condition, lucid of mind, able to see, hear, and move although she did walk slowly with the aid of a cane.

Currently have a great-grandmother at 102. She still lives by herself, with people stopping by and checking on her most days of the week. Someone drives her to a quilting club every week, she doesn't have the dexterity to sew anymore but lines up tiles for the others lol.

Aunt Mary hit 106 or 108, Aunt Binny hit 102, Grandma hit 104.
- Looks like you're all set to repeat that

I have children entering their teenage years, and my great-grandfather is still alive.
- So how old is he? If all of you got children at 18 he could only be 82 if my calculation is correct.
  
  early hundreds, but his mind has been gone for years, sadly

The record is my maternal grandmother who lived to either 86 or 89, depending on what birth record you use.

I'm counting on reaching longetivity escape velocity and never dying. I'm only half-kidding.

My gramps died at 88 but he was a lifelong smoker and alcoholic and had emphysema for the last decades of his life so I believe that without addiction he'd probably have lived to 100.