130-year-old Woman?

Posted by Miss Cellania in Odd News on March 25, 2009 at 9:41 am


Sakhan Dosova of Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan has documents that say she will celebrate her 130th birthday on Friday. Census officials discovered that her documents all agree that her birthdate is March 27, 1879. Records show she was on the books as 47 years old when a census was taken under the Stalinist regime in 1926.

Nailya Dosayeva, head of social and demographical department of Karaganga regional statistics bureau, said there is no doubt that her claim is authentic.

‘Sakhan Dosova was found during our census held in February and March. She has an old passport and documents which are genuine, and based on these we can judge her age as being correct.’

The local mayor Islam Togaybayev went to visit her ‘to personally congratulate her on such an achievement and show his respect’, said his spokesman.

Other officials are not so sure.

Some Kazakh bureaucrats want more checks to be done to ascertain the accuracy of her claim, pointing out that birth records in Kazakhstan in the 19th century are notoriously unreliable.

‘We can see that this is turning into a big story and for the sake of our country, we need to be sure her claim is correct,’ said one official.

According to one version of her life, she must have given birth to several children over the age of 60, he said.

‘There is no doubt she is very old. But is she really 130? Or was there a white lie long ago which was never corrected? We need to find out.’

Dosova attributes her longevity to a sense of humor. Link -via Unique Daily


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25 comments to "130-year-old Woman?"

  1. Babycakes
    March 25th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    I'm not sure if that is her picture, but she looks like she's around her 80s, but that's just my opinion.

  2. Elagie
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am

    As a long-time genealogist, I've experienced first hand how difficult it is to untangle who is who from documentation alone -- not only did parents "hand down" their names but often if an earlier child in a family died, the parents would name a later baby the same name (sometimes several times until one lived long enough!) On top of this, very often cousins living in the same small towns would have the identical name, etc.

    In short, I rather doubt the 130 years claim (though maybe in northern Kazakhstan life is so boring it just seems to have been that long!)

  3. Gauldar
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    There's the possibility she's using an ID that was taken from a dead person to avoid something. Documents can be forged and you can't take people on their word, you just have to follow the paper trail to verify the truth.

  4. Gauldar
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Grrr, I hate the auto moderation thing sometimes, after scanning through my post I had just noticed that 'do***ents' must of tripped it.

  5. Hootie McBoob
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Likely the records refer to two (or more) people--say, mother and daughter of the same name.

  6. Justin
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    I have read and heard that when you reach a certain age you stop physically aging. I don't think there is a real difference between someone who is 102 and someone who is 130. (as far as outward appearances go)

  7. Evilbeagle
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Despite the evidence, I'm a bit skeptical still, but I have to say that if she really is 130, that's very cool.

  8. Elizabeth
    March 25th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    The thing that makes me sort of believe this is the record from the 1926 census - who would lie about being 47? Of course, I think Hootie McBoob's comment makes a lot of sense. I also like typing "Hootie McBoob." Thanks, Hootie!

  9. Thomas
    March 25th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Elderly news story for make benefit and bring attention glorious nation of Kazakhstan.

  10. Dog Droppings
    March 25th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    About 15 years ago I met a guy who was 100. It was pretty cool; he still walked around the neighborhood and had all his marbles. He told me about WWI.

  11. VonSkippy
    March 25th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    Ah yes, Kazakhstan, that bastion of scientific method and accurate governmental records.

  12. violet
    March 26th, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Whatever, but what Justin said. Once you get to critical decrepitness, you're pretty much just coasting. Not that she doesn't look a day over 90.

  13. violet
    March 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am

    Or not that she looks a day over...eh. You know.

  14. dgaicun
    March 26th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    People who live until they are like 200 years old are almost always women, and almost all of them squander the last 150 years doing nothing but watching soap operas or, in this case, eating cottage cheese. OK my children are all grown up, time to sit on my ass for an entire century doing absolutely nothing while historical milestones fly by.

    No wonder they live forever, they don't do anything. It's hard to have an accident if you're just sitting in a chair all day. Their metabolisms probably slow down like a hibernating bear.

    Just once it would be cool to hear about someone that lives to 115 that actually manages to pack two or three whole lifetimes worth of experience into that extended lifespan. Like yeah, I was an architect, but then I turned 70 and realized I wanted to be a surgeon or a stunt pilot. I trained for 8 years and still had a 30 year career. Bravo, two lives packed into one.

  15. dgaicun
    March 26th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    By the way that wont happen. If you're 115 years old you probably have the IQ of a retarded person. Remember that story the other day about mental decline starting at 27? If you're 115, I'll bet your brain looks like a degraded block of Swiss cheese. Eating cottage cheese is pretty much all you can do at that age.

    Some scholars are pretty old, but they don't really have to learn new things. They're basically coasting on 70 years of accumulated reading. Most of it probably forgotten, but when you've read 20 times as much as the average person that doesn't matter much.

    But almost no old people can really learn anything new, and the older you are the worse it gets. A 15 year old boy can plausibly pick up a guitar for his first time, and re-invent rock music within 5 years. A lot of rock musicians are famous within 10 years of the first time they practiced. A 70 year old never does that.

    A 10 year old boy exposed to his first real math equations can be at the forefront of some crazy new technical discipline at MIT within 10 years. A 70 year old never does that.

    Once you're old, you are either coasting on the niche you made for yourself while you were young, or you're pretty much done. An 80 year old is an 120 year old is a 300 year old.

  16. Gauldar
    March 27th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    @Dgaicun

    Whats your point? Are you letting us know that you plan on dying before 80 to prevent yourself from feeling useless?

  17. Jimbo
    March 27th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Totally Bogus!! She more than likely forgot the year she was born by 50 years.

  18. ted
    March 27th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    I just find it amazing that she could give birth to several children over the age of 60. That's a long gestation.

  19. cutegal09800
    March 28th, 2009 at 12:20 am

    There's a possibility..

    Lifespan changes when your lifestyle changes.

    Better Lifestyle longer lifespan.

  20. Shea
    March 28th, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Sure, the lot of you would like to have brief and brilliant lives... but you know in your heart of hearts you'd all really prefer to sit around for a century.

  21. Shea
    March 28th, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Sure, the lot of you would like to have brief but brilliant lives... but you know in your heart of hearts you'd all really prefer to sit around for a century.

  22. CC245
    March 28th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    to baby cakes
    There is a video about her of course her pic would be real.
    And your BLIND if you think she looks around 80.

  23. professionalopinion
    March 28th, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    I'd much rather live a full life in 70 years than 130 years of doing nothing. And on the aging brain situation, that is plainly untrue. There is no definite causal relationship between age and decline of IQ, after a certain age the brain is more susceptible to losing memories and general senility, but those are mostly people who work in professions where their brain is in constant use will be able to from new information and memories in their brain until the day they die. The decline of physical abilities would be better attributed to why an old person can't learn guitar quickly, or that they simply have no will to. If they didn't pick up a guitar in 70 years, why start now?

  24. Bms
    May 15th, 2009 at 3:25 am

    See this link.. for more info
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164503/Is-woman-rea lly-old-LIGHT-BULB-Oldest-person-world-set-celebrate-130th-birthday.ht ml

  25. Apheilion dustwake
    August 16th, 2009 at 1:42 am

    Well, there was a lady who lived to age 122 and died in 1998. Maybe its not impossible in 2009. Seems like life expectancy just keeps getting higher and higher every epoch or so.


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