Besse Cooper
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Besse Berry Cooper ( ne Brown ; born August 26, 1896) is an American supercentenarian . She became the world's oldest living person following the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011. She is one of 24 people with an undisputed lifespan of at least 115 years. On December 2, 2011, she became the last living person born in 1896. [1]
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Cooper was born Besse Berry Brown in Sullivan County , Tennessee in 1896, the third of eight children born to Richard Brown (1861-1932) and Angeline Berry (1866-1927). [2] She graduated from East Tennessee State Normal School in 1916, and worked as a schoolteacher in her native Tennessee before moving to Georgia around the time of America's entrance into World War I in 1917. [3] She taught in Between, Georgia until 1929. She married Luther Cooper in 1924 and was widowed in 1963, having had four children with him; their first child was born in 1929 and their last in 1944. [4] [5]
Besse Cooper became Georgia's oldest resident on January 19, 2009, following the death of 113-year-old Beatrice Farve . [4] Cooper is additionally the second-oldest verified person ever from Tennessee , after Elizabeth Bolden , who died in December 2006, aged 116 years 118 days. Cooper reputedly attributes her longevity to "minding her own business" and avoiding junk food . [6]
At the time of her 115th birthday in August 2011, Cooper had four children, 12 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. [7]
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Screw that!
I'm living past 100 AND going out in a blaze of glory.
Past 100, a blaze of glory is a grease fire. Dont know that i want to go out like that.
a blaze of glory is a grease fire
As long as it's a big one, it's better than dying in a drab room in a nursing home.
I think i will prefer a death while i sleep to being burnt alive. Actually, burning and being eaten by something rank as my two worst ways to die.
Oh. I thought there would be a David Carradine reference somewhere in there Grasshopper.
Ya call that goin' out in a blaze of glory ? Try this :