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That guy has nothing on Li Ching-Yuen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen 7ft tall old guy who is inc

That guy has nothing on Li Ching-Yuen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen 7ft tall old guy who is incredibly fit and agile with many witnesses claiming their grandparents knew him as an old man when they were children.

_ph_ 7y ago
A faszinating story to read. While reason clearly says that stories like this need to be fake, one never can stop wondering whether there aren't some people who by odd chance (or very good genes) live far longer than they should. I am a bit thinking about Methuselah's Children by Heinlein here. If natural lives way beyond 100 years would be possible, one would expect a few more documented cases beyond 120 years though. But still, this is faszinating just to speculate about.
- narrator 7y ago
  Seems there are a lot of leads to go on for someone who wanted to dig around in Chinese archives: "He died from natural causes on 6 May 1933 in Kai Xian, Sichuan, Republic of China and was survived by his 24th wife, a woman of 60 years.[8][7] Li supposedly produced over 200 descendants during his life span, surviving 23 wives.[9][8] Other sources credit him with 180 descendants, over 11 generations, living at the time of his death and 14 marriages"
- kazinator 7y ago
  > wondering whether there aren't some people who by odd chance (or very good genes) live far longer than they should. Exactly; death and aging are programmed. We know of hereditary conditions that cause premature aging and death; why can't the opposite exist, causing a human to age more like a tortoise.
  - _ph_ 7y ago
    Observation and logic unfortunately say, that while most people live between 70 and 90 years, the 110-120 years of the documented super-old might already be how far good genes can push the human life.

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That guy has nothing on Li Ching-Yuen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen 7ft tall old guy who is inc

by narrator 7y ago

_ph_ 7y ago
A faszinating story to read. While reason clearly says that stories like this need to be fake, one never can stop wondering whether there aren't some people who by odd chance (or very good genes) live far longer than they should. I am a bit thinking about Methuselah's Children by Heinlein here. If natural lives way beyond 100 years would be possible, one would expect a few more documented cases beyond 120 years though. But still, this is faszinating just to speculate about.
- narrator 7y ago
  Seems there are a lot of leads to go on for someone who wanted to dig around in Chinese archives: "He died from natural causes on 6 May 1933 in Kai Xian, Sichuan, Republic of China and was survived by his 24th wife, a woman of 60 years.[8][7] Li supposedly produced over 200 descendants during his life span, surviving 23 wives.[9][8] Other sources credit him with 180 descendants, over 11 generations, living at the time of his death and 14 marriages"
- kazinator 7y ago
  > wondering whether there aren't some people who by odd chance (or very good genes) live far longer than they should. Exactly; death and aging are programmed. We know of hereditary conditions that cause premature aging and death; why can't the opposite exist, causing a human to age more like a tortoise.
  - _ph_ 7y ago
    Observation and logic unfortunately say, that while most people live between 70 and 90 years, the 110-120 years of the documented super-old might already be how far good genes can push the human life.