The Oldest Person In The World Has Sadly Passed Away

The oldest person in the world has died at the age 116-years-old.

Susannah Mushatt Jones sadly passed away yesterday and was the last American born in the 1800s.

Susannah lived through three centuries, the 19th, 20th and the 21st, making her a supercentarian.

The 116-year-old, who was the co-founder of a scholarship fund for young African-American women to go to college, believed the key to long life was getting more than 10 hours of sleep a night, and lifelong avoidance of indulging in alcohol and cigarettes.

Following Susannah's passing, Emma Morano is now the verified oldest living person in the world, also at the age of 116-years-old.

Emma, who was born four months after Susannah, is also a supercentarian.

The Italian attributes her long life to eating raw eggs and staying single, as well as never using drugs, drinking a glass of homemade brandy, and savouring chocolate, but, above all, thinking positively about the future.

RIP, Susannah.

Mark McGowan

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