"Mrs. Calment, physically active all her life, rode a bicycle until she was 100"<p>That should probably have been a warning sign that she wasn't going to drop dead any time soon.
Fantastic story. According to Wikipedia, Jeanne Calment did pass away two years later in 1997 at the age of 122.5 years.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment</a>
> Although the amount Mr. Raffray already paid is more than twice the apartment's current market value, his widow is obligated to keep sending that monthly check. If Mrs. Calment outlives her, too, then the Raffray children and grandchildren will have to pay.<p>Hard to see how that would be legal.
How incredibly unfortunate.<p>The annual death rate for people in their 90s is probably in the 10s of %, and rising every year. Someone posted a nice infographic where you could put in your age and it would give you some simulated death ages. It was pretty hard to get over 100 even when starting quite close to it.<p>This guy happened to pick the oldest person ever.
And yet she didn't get to experience what my great-grandmother did, which was to live in parts of three centuries. She was born in 1899 and died in 2002.<p>Admittedly, she probably didn't remember the first '99.
> She moved that year into a nursing home, which is now named after her.<p>This is pretty cool as well. I'll put this on my list of goals when I'm old.
Too bad she didn't have a Fitbit or Apple health app so we could have that data :-(<p>--- EDIT:<p>Who the fuck would downvote that?? Knowing the exercise habits of a 120 year old person should be awesome. You think I'm playing fanboi? Jesus, no it just would have been valuable to know her physical habits. So, explain yourselves.