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[quote]Alexander Imich, a Polish-born psychic researcher who was certified the oldest man on earth, died Sunday morning at a senior residence in Manhattan. He had turned 111 on Feb. 4.
His death was reported by a grandniece, Karen Bogen, in Rhode Island, and a longtime friend in New York, Michael Mannion, who had visited him Saturday night at the Esplanade, the senior home at West End Avenue and 74th Street where Mr. Imich had been living since 1986.[/quote]
[quote]He attributed his long life to the fact that he and his wife, Wela, a painter and therapist who died in 1986, never had children. (In addition to Ms. Bogen, he is survived by an 84-year-old nephew, Jan Imich, in London.) He also exercised, ate sparingly and never drank alcohol.
He said “the aeroplane” was the greatest invention he witnessed in his lifetime; he was born 10 months before the flight of the Wright Brothers.
Mr. Imich was born into a well-to-do secular Jewish family on Feb. 4, 1903, in Czestochowa in southern Poland, a city known for its famous painting of the Black Madonna. His father owned a decorating business.
Young Alex was thwarted in an early desire to become a captain in the Polish Navy, which he laid to anti-Semitism. He turned to zoology and was also stymied, so he switched to chemistry.
In the early 1930s, he began researching a Polish medium known as Matylda S., who was renowned for séances that reportedly called up the dead. He detailed the encounters in a German scholarly journal in 1932 and an anthology he edited, “Incredible Tales of the Paranormal,” published by Bramble Books in 1995, when he was 92.
With the outbreak of World War II, he and his wife fled to Soviet-occupied Bialystok, Poland, where they were sent to a Soviet labor camp. Once freed, they moved to Samarkand, in what is now Uzbekistan, and then back to Poland, where they found many family members had died in the Holocaust. In 1951 they immigrated to Waterbury, Conn.[/quote]
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[quote]He attributed his long life to the fact that he and his wife, Wela, a painter and therapist who died in 1986, never had children.[/quote]
Uh-huh. Right...
[QUOTE=download;45042960]Uh-huh. Right...[/QUOTE]
Raising kids is stressful as fuck
[QUOTE]Alexander Imich, a Polish-born psychic researcher[/QUOTE]
Bet he didn't see this coming.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;45043038]Bet he didn't see this coming.[/QUOTE]
Considering he probably died of old age, he's probably been seeing it coming for yeeeaaars.
This guys age is fucking crazy though. I mean, he's even lived through the 2 world wars. I can't even imagine living that old.
Damn, 111 years.
Shame his life was affected by the 2nd World War. I couldn't live a normal life knowing that all my family members were killed during the Holocaust.
Hopefully he can finally rest now.
Rest in piece, this also makes me wonder how far my great grandmother will make it.
(She will become 100 years old this winter.)
[QUOTE=Demomanjaro;45043063]Damn, 111 years.
Shame his life was affected by the 2nd World War. I couldn't live a normal life knowing that all my family members were killed during the Holocaust.
Hopefully he can finally rest now.[/QUOTE]
My grandmother lived through WW2 and she says the thing she remember the most from it is the chocolate and the chewing gum the allies brought after liberation.
Then again she wasn't very old when it happened.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45043326]My grandmother lived through WW2 and she says the thing she remember the most from it is the chocolate and the chewing gum the allies brought after liberation.
Then again she wasn't very old when it happened.[/QUOTE]
Was there a ridicilous amount of white flags there? :v:
He's witnessed so much, and stuff that no one would be able to handle normally, rest in peace.
I know that everyone likes to say that human life is incredibly short, but living for that long is absolutely astonishing and pretty difficult to comprehend for someone like me who was only around for 21 years. It just makes me further realize that I actually really am young as shit.
Also, in my opinion he did not look bad at all for 111.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45043326]My grandmother lived through WW2 and she says the thing she remember the most from it is the chocolate and the chewing gum the allies brought after liberation.
Then again she wasn't very old when it happened.[/QUOTE]
My Gran also lived through world war 2 and all she can remember is having to make tea with carrot slices instead of teabags due to shortages.
[QUOTE=XeroG;45043365]Was there a ridicilous amount of white flags there? :v:[/QUOTE]
...Seriously?
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45043326]My grandmother lived through WW2 and she says the thing she remember the most from it is the chocolate and the chewing gum the allies brought after liberation.
Then again she wasn't very old when it happened.[/QUOTE]
My grandad happened to live in Swansea at the time of WWII. It had some of the UK's largest industries and ports at the time which obviously meant that the Nazis bombed the shit out of it.
Jesus christ, he was lucky to even be alive.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;45043029]Raising kids is stressful as fuck[/QUOTE]
True, but I doubt it lowers your lifespan by a sizeable amount. I'm pretty sure most of the oldest people in the world had children, too.
[QUOTE=FreddiRox!;45042904]Check em[/QUOTE]
That caught me off guard, I'm going to hell.
[QUOTE=Demomanjaro;45043063]Damn, 111 years.
Shame his life was affected by the 2nd World War. I couldn't live a normal life knowing that all my family members were killed during the Holocaust.
Hopefully he can finally rest now.[/QUOTE]
Not just World War II, but the Great War as well.
[QUOTE=XeroG;45043365]Was there a ridicilous amount of white flags there? :v:[/QUOTE]
I like the stinky surrender monkey jokes but at least try to find a fitting context.
My great great grandad died at 104, I always find it impressive just how long some people can live. Someday, I want to be absolalone(age)111
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment"]Jeanne Calment[/URL] was the oldest woman documented at 122. Interesting read if you want to know more about supercentenarians
few interesting things about her
-she smoked (had nearly 2 cigarettes a day in her later years)
-outlived all her heirs by age 90
-was active. She took up fencing and rode her bike up till the age of 100
-was the woman who sold her flat to her lawyer on the condition he pay until her death. He ended up paying double what the flat was worth
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45043326]My grandmother lived through WW2 and she says the thing she remember the most from it is the chocolate and the chewing gum the allies brought after liberation.
Then again she wasn't very old when it happened.[/QUOTE]
"There was this young boy from the allies who gave us candies, he was a nice guy <3"
best grandma
Excellent news for the world's second oldest man.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45043927]I like the stinky surrender monkey jokes but at least try to find a fitting context.[/QUOTE]
Terrible jokes are never out of context
This is really cool. My great grand mother is still trucking along. She is currently 103 and her mother lived to be 105. Mentally she is doing better than some people I know, but her hearing and sight have started to diminish. That is expected though, since seeing how she has lived longer than most.
The one common theme amongst all old (healthy) people seems to be keeping active. My grandma's the same, from about 60 to 90 she's been all over the States, south America, Africa, China, India, and she still does all the house chores and shopping.
Didnt he just become the worlds oldest man a couple of weeks ago?
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[QUOTE=FreddiRox!;45042904]Check em[/QUOTE]
Can someone explain this joke to me
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