‘Oldest person ever’ has passed away, although her age is still under discussion | Abroad

According to her birth certificate, Almihan Seyiti, a Uyghur woman, was born on June 25, 1886 in Komuxerik, a Chinese community near the border with Kyrgyzstan. In 2013, 127 years later, the Chinese Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics officially named her the oldest living person in the country. Last Thursday she died at home, surrounded by her family, authorities report.

Seyiti married in 1903 and together with her husband – who died in 1976 – adopted a boy and a girl. The woman went through six generations of descendants and survived, among others, 43 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Although she had an official government-issued ID, her real date of birth is still debated to this day. Many do not believe the “evidence” because “rather bad accounting practices” were in vogue in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

In contrast, the village of Komuxerik is known as “a place of longevity” as the small community is home to dozens of seniors aged 90 and over.

Jeanne Calment

Because Guinness World Records researchers have not been able to independently verify her age, Seyiti will not officially hold the world record for “oldest person ever.” That is currently still in the name of Jeanne Calment, a French woman who is said to have died in 1997 at the age of 122. Would, because the legitimacy of her age has also been questioned in recent years. According to researchers, it’s possible that Calment took her mother’s ID, which would lower her real age by 23.

At present, Japanese Kane Tanaka is the oldest person on Earth. She was born in January of 1903 and reportedly beat cancer twice.

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