I thought this was probably just a hoax or an unconfirmable misunderstanding floating around in some obscure under ground sources that wasnt really taken seriously. Somebody I know mentioned this today. It makes me wonder if there is more too it. Could she possibly really be that old?
I wonder if there is any hard, tangible medical way to confirm/disprove possible cases like this, like for example extrapolating from what we know about the state of metabolism, organs etc of centenarians and then cheking if she has similar stats to what would theoritically be a centenarian's + circa 50 years of damage.
To Kolos : you know what they would probably say to this ( that's it's always somebody from a deep jungle or somewhere ) - that they live stressless lifes, good natural diet, respect from youngsters etc etc, the ussuall stuff about "what West does to its people". If she knew some confirmable first-hand details about 1883's Krakatoa eruption that would be a little argument for the truth of this, but for now I don't buy the story either way.
I found this sentence hillarious : "There's no authentic data to prove her age, but judging from her statements and the age of her adopted daughter, who's now 108 years old, it's difficult to doubt it,” Statistics Bureau official Jhonny Sardjono said". Looks like Mr Jhonny Sardjono set the gold standard of rational enquiry.
Edited by chris w, 17 June 2010 - 02:19 PM.