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This article is golden: > Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over

This article is golden: > Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death. The Japanese government has run one of the largest nutritional surveys in the world, dating back to 1975. From then until now, Okinawa has had the worst health in Japan. They’ve eaten the least vegetables; they’ve been extremely heavy drinkers.

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HPsquared 2y ago
Ah, statistics.
syntheticnature 2y ago
To be fair, once I die, I don't imagine I'll feel like registering my death.
- ptsneves 2y ago
  Barbarian! People went to war for those rights.
- tasty_freeze 2y ago
  That is one of the recurring news items in the US that drives me batty. When each of my parents died, removing their names from the voter rolls was about the 596th item down on my priority list. The government realizes this and regularly scrubs the voter rolls of dead people. Yet certain news organizations will report this as if it is a scandal. "Thousands of dead people were set to vote until their plan was foiled by the governors office". Tell me when dead people are voting in numbers, not that people die while still being on the rolls.
  - LorenPechtel 2y ago
    It didn't even occur to me as something to be done when I was dealing with my mother's estate. I would have thought it was automatic (SS# shows up in the death index) but even if it wasn't a registration with nobody voting it will eventually get scrubbed.
bitwize 2y ago
Some social media algorithm once recommended to me a video about a 550-year-old, still living Japanese monk. Turns out it was a sokushinbutsu, a self-mummifying monk who practiced extreme fasting, dietary restriction and dehydration until, emaciated and desiccated, their body died in a meditative state. Such monks were thought not to be dead but rather to have ascended to a higher plane of understanding. Their corpses would be dressed in fine clothes and venerated almost like gods. If you complete a shrine in Breath of the Wild and reach the mummified monk at the end, those monks were inspired by sokushinbutsu. It made me think about the claims of extreme longevity, especially from the Far East, and how many of those might just be due to flexibility about the definition of "death".

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HPsquared 2y ago

Ah, statistics.

syntheticnature 2y ago

To be fair, once I die, I don't imagine I'll feel like registering my death.

ptsneves 2y ago
Barbarian! People went to war for those rights.
tasty_freeze 2y ago
That is one of the recurring news items in the US that drives me batty. When each of my parents died, removing their names from the voter rolls was about the 596th item down on my priority list. The government realizes this and regularly scrubs the voter rolls of dead people. Yet certain news organizations will report this as if it is a scandal. "Thousands of dead people were set to vote until their plan was foiled by the governors office". Tell me when dead people are voting in numbers, not that people die while still being on the rolls.
- LorenPechtel 2y ago
  It didn't even occur to me as something to be done when I was dealing with my mother's estate. I would have thought it was automatic (SS# shows up in the death index) but even if it wasn't a registration with nobody voting it will eventually get scrubbed.

bitwize 2y ago

Some social media algorithm once recommended to me a video about a 550-year-old, still living Japanese monk. Turns out it was a sokushinbutsu, a self-mummifying monk who practiced extreme fasting, dietary restriction and dehydration until, emaciated and desiccated, their body died in a meditative state. Such monks were thought not to be dead but rather to have ascended to a higher plane of understanding. Their corpses would be dressed in fine clothes and venerated almost like gods. If you complete a shrine in Breath of the Wild and reach the mummified monk at the end, those monks were inspired by sokushinbutsu. It made me think about the claims of extreme longevity, especially from the Far East, and how many of those might just be due to flexibility about the definition of "death".