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Life tips, by man who lived to 114
Evening Standard 15 Apr 2011The world's oldest man has died at the age of 114.
Walter Breuning's earliest memories were from 111 years ago when he was three, of his grandfather's tales of the American civil war.
He revealed his rules for a long life shortly before dying in Montana. They are: embrace change; eat two meals a day; work as long as you can; help others, and don't fear death "because you're born to die". He was the world's second-oldest person.
Besse Cooper of Georgia was born 26 days earlier.
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change in permanent. Get used to it. Love it and desire it always. So much for good luck but hard work pays better returns. Would have love to shake Walter's hands.
- Austine Aidokhai, Lagos, Nigeria, 20/04/2011 08:19
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Nice post Bruce.
History is within us all.
Don't forget to pass it down...
- Richard, Alabama, USA, 19/04/2011 16:15
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This man mentioning his grandpa who fought in the Civil War reminds me of a story I read somewhere else:
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"I'll never forget visiting my grandfather in a VA hospital when I was maybe five years old. There was a very, very old man there, and my dad took me over to talk to him. He asked me if I knew who Abraham Lincoln was, and I said that he'd been a president a long time ago. The old man told me to shake hands with him. Afterward, he told me that when he was about my age he'd shaken hands with Abraham Lincoln.
I remember thinking later that, as a boy, he might also have shaken hands with an old man who, when he was young boy, had shaken hands with George Washington or Thomas Jefferson."
Robert Bruce Thompson
- Bruce, Victoria, 18/04/2011 17:01
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