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THE WORLD’S OLDEST man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112.
Momoi, born months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, passed away late Sunday, an official from Saitama City said today, where he had lived for many years.
The supercentenarian, recognised as the world’s oldest male at the age of 111 last year, died of kidney failure in a care home in Tokyo.
“We heard from his family… that his health worsened one or two weeks ago,” the official said.
Momoi, a former high school principal who was born on February 5, 1903, received a certificate from Guinness World Records confirming the achievement last year.
Dressed in a black suit, white shirt and silver tie, Momoi told assembled media that he did not plan on going anywhere just yet.
“I want to live for about two more years,” he said in soft voice at that time.
He was born in Minamisoma, Fukushima, an area badly hit by the deadly 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a generation.
Reuters reports that Momoi credited healthy eating and plenty of sleep to his longevity.
According to the US-based Gerontology Research Group, the title of world’s oldest man now passes to Japan’s Yasutaro Koide, also 112 years old and just over a month younger than Momoi.
On the opposite side of the Pacific, the world’s oldest person celebrated her 116th birthday on Monday.
New Yorker Susannah Mushatt Jones, a former live-in housekeeper, known as “T” to her 100 nieces and nephews, was born on July 6, 1899.
Japan is known for the longevity of its people and around a quarter of its population of 128 million is aged 65 or older.
- © AFP, 2015, additional reporting by Nicky Ryan
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Sad we have lost him – regardless if self inflicted or natural medical problem-He will be missed ;-(
And why are people so eager to find out…should be just in his family’s interest in knowing. …
Won’t make any difference now anyway sadly.
I’d call him a hero before I’d call him a heroin
Prince was a Jehovah’s Witness.
He had been badly in need of a double hip replacement but it was against his beliefs to have a blood transfusion.
Makes no difference now in any case as his soul will be winging its way back to the Creator.
RIP.
What sort of shite are you spouting Cal?
This morbid fascination with how he died is creepy to say the least.
Some ” theories” being put forward demonstrate how the Internet seems to bring out the darkness in certain people. Let get guy rest in peace and be thankful for his music.
He was a very well known public figure,an icon for many people,legions of fans across the planet.He lived his live to a fair degree in the public eye,people being curious or wanting to know how he met his end is not morbid fascination,creepy or dark…exaggerate much?
Does it matter how he died may he r.I.p his music will live on
We’ll finally know if he really did have those ribs removed
It doesn’t matter how he died, he was a genious and I’m glad to say I saw him perform in Malahide, r.I.p Prince, oiche maith
Genius
I like that he talked about geoengineering in a interview before his death
A sobering reminder that unfortunately, our favourite celebrities (and musical geniuses) often talk a lot of b*llocks.
Also, it wasn’t his last interview. But I guess that bit made it seem a bit more spooky.
Geoengineering and GMOs are worth talking about…just because you trust the mad men who run the planet…not everyone is quite so naive…
The science is clear on GMOs, unless you’re just talking about risk of ecosystem takeover, which is a useful conversation to have.
Geoengineering, i.e. chemtrails, is a load of nonsense that has never, ever been substantiated.
Overdose
Evidence ?
Apparently he overdosed on painkillers last week and was revived. He really needed surgery but as one poster said earlier he wouldn’t go through with it for religious reasons. I suppose we will have to wait for the coroners results..in the meantime its probably better to sit back and listen to some of the brilliant music he made. And remember he was musical genius.
Every single news outlet in the world has been reporting in since this afternoon and the pm results are obviously waiting for toxicology results. So it’s so obviously an overdose.
Sorry if everyone is so offended by that but honestly can’t understand why they are!
Like I said it was reported he overdosed on painkillers last week..but sure you seem to know more. We wiĺl wait for toxicology results so..now maybe you might wait as well.
Wow!!! You know before the medical examiners complete the post-mortem. Quick!! Get on Sky and tell them u know more than anyone else. Ye dope!!!!
Macooper, not obviously an overdose. Not obviously anything yet just pure speculation. I don’t think people would be offended if it were an overdose its more the complete spoofery of people who think before the results are in that is bothering people.
What is that all about?!
Heroin
Kill your idol or your idol will kill you .
Loada w@nkbots invading
Don’t take our sting journal
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