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Also she had her personal documents and photos burned, a damning piece of evidence which is mentioned without comment here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne
by canjobear 4y ago
Also she had her personal documents and photos burned, a damning piece of evidence which is mentioned without comment here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Age_verification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Age_verificatio...
- masklinn 4y agoThere is nothing damning about it? Half of HN would immediately start throwing paper into the BBQ if the city requested access to personal documents.
- jquery 4y agoIt doesn't damn her as a person, but if you're gonna claim to have won the lottery twice in a row, I think you had better have the receipts or people can safely assume you're either lying or confused.
- TylerE 4y agoBut ALL family photos too? That smells rotten.
- vidarh 4y agoI do genealogy. Of the family members that were born that long ago, we have pictures of maybe 1/4. It's not at all certain that "all family photos" amounted to much.
- gopher_space 4y agoIt's not an uncommon occurrence after a nasty divorce or a death. It smells less rotten when you learn that people generally regret doing it to some extent. Box full of memories into the fire in a fit of rage/grief.
- TylerE 4y agoWhy burn photos of yourself, though, at an advanced age?
- sct202 4y agoI'm just imagining having to turn over my google photos or emails to a government archivist, and I would for sure tell someone to sanitize it before giving it over.
- vintermann 4y agoIf my records are over a hundred years old already, I hope I'll be far enough past embarrassment that I'm able to say "Take it, it belongs in a museum"