111-year-old is world's oldest man

[joeybee12]

At 111 years old, Dr. Alexander Imich of New York City has been crowned the new world's oldest living man, according to Guinness World Records.

The world's oldest living person and oldest woman, Misao Okawa of Osaka, Japan is 116 years old; she was born on March 5, 1898. The longest a person has been known to live, at least an age that could be authenticated by Guinness World Records, is 122 years and 164 days; that person, Louise Calment of France, was born on Feb. 21, 1875, and died in a nursing home in Arles, France, on Aug. 4, 1997.

Imich, who says he owes his longevity to good genes and a moderate and healthy lifestyle, was born in in present-day Cz?stochowa, Poland, on Feb. 4, 1903. He and his wife, Wela, immigrated to the United States in 1953, where his wife died in 1986. Imich has been living alone in Manhattan since she died. [The World's 7 Weirdest World Records]

His motto, he told Guinness World Records, is that one should "always pursue what one loves and is passionate about."

http://news.yahoo.com/111-old-worlds-oldest-man-151501105.html

Pretty amazing the different times he must have seen and experienced.

[theHandpuppet]

1. To put things in perspective...

Imich was already 38 years old when the U.S. entered WWII. Wow.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

2. To put things further into perspective...

Someone who lived a full life of over 100 years finally died in order for the next man or woman to be handed the Oldest Person in the World baton.

[lpbk2713]

3. Probably the only person ...

if you ask her about the turn of the Century, she could say "which one" ?

[LittleBlue]

4. On his Wiki: "born in Czestochowa, Poland (then a part of Russian Empire)"

It always fills me with wonder to see these really old people who were born in the pre-WW1 empires. Imagine all that they've seen, the current world must look alien to them.

I wonder how many are left on earth.