• Question: how old can people live to?

    Asked by Black dragon to Ali on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 10 Nov 2014:


      There was a report that a lady in Mexico celebrated her 127th birthday on August 31st this year, but unfortunately she lost the proof of her age 40 years ago, so we can’t actually prove that’s her age. The oldest recorded age of a person that we know of was Jean Calment, who lived to be 122 years old!

      If you live a healthy lifestyle then there’s no reason you couldn’t live to be that age! And with advances in modern medicine and technology, we might be able to live even longer!

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