Dr. Leila Denmark
The world's oldest practicing physician when she retired at age 103, died Sunday in Athens, her family members said. She was 114.
What's weird about that is her age. 114. During the 20th century life expectancy nearly doubled. The number of people living past 100 has skyrocketed but
the total number of people living past 114 has stayed the same. . There are
very few documented cases of people living past 115.
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Young calls this the "rectangularization of the mortality curve." To illustrate it, he points to Japan, which in 1990 had 3,000 people aged 100 and over, with the oldest being 114. Twenty years later, Japan has an estimated 44,000 people over the age of 100—and the oldest is still 114
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