Discussion: McCain's 106-Year-Old Mother To Attend Her Son's DC Memorial And Burial Services

It’s not supposed to go like that.

Reminds me of this story from the 1990s:

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/29/world/a-120-year-lease-on-life-outlasts-apartment-heir.html

A 120-Year Lease on Life Outlasts Apartment Heir
Excerpt:
Andre-Francois Raffray thought he had a great deal 30 years ago: He would pay a 90-year-old woman 2,500 francs (about $500) a month until she died, then move into her grand apartment in a town Vincent van Gogh once roamed.

But this Christmas, Mr. Raffray died at age 77, having laid out the equivalent of more than $184,000 for an apartment he never got to live in.

On the same day, Jeanne Calment, now listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest person at 120, dined on foie gras, duck thighs, cheese and chocolate cake at her nursing home near the sought-after apartment in Arles, northwest of Marseilles in the south of France.

She need not worry about losing income. Although the amount Mr. Raffray already paid is more than twice the apartment’s current market value, his widow is obligated to keep sending that monthly check. If Mrs. Calment outlives her, too, then the Raffray children and grandchildren will have to pay.

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“Though slowed by a stroke,”

God bless this woman.
My physician wife once had a patient who told her: “Everything has gone downhill since I hit 95.”

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I volunteer at lots of nursing homes. I know a man who is 106. It’s a curse to outlive everyone you know.

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I hope I’m healthy enough to travel in my 90s. Also, please, please, Mrs. McCain, tell us what you think of the current occupant of the White House.

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If she doesn’t swear what’s the point?

What a gal!

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William Howard Taft was US President when this woman was born.

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My paternal great-grandmother lived to 107. She watched both of her children die, husbands, grandchildren and great-grands, all of her friends. But it was the loss of my mother’s mother that did her in. They were best friends and roommates and she just never quite recovered from the loss.

My heart goes out to Mrs. McCain. I wish her strength and some semblance of comfort. I doubt losing a child gets easier at any age.

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Aw…that’s sweet…and kinda sad. I hope I live that long. Odds are though, its not in the cards.

Be ironic if fats turned out to be the key to a longer life.

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Two of President John Tyler’s grandsons are still living. George Washington was president when their grandfather was born.

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I’m fairly convinced fat isn’t what makes people fat, it’s the sugar.

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Sort of makes you wonder about how great that kind of longevity really is if it means burying your child. I guarantee you she still saw him as the little boy she sent off to school every morning. All moms do.

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I had to hang that on the door to the snack cupboard in the office. It doesn’t help, but maybe feeling a little extra guilty burns more calories?

At my Great Aunt’s 100th birthday celebration, someone asked her how it feels to be 100. “Ach,” she replied, “inside this 100-year-old body, there’s a 65-year-old woman trying to bust out!!”

I’ve been looking forward to my 65th birthday ever since – must be one hell of an age!

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Be ironic if fats turned out to be the key to a longer life.

Sleeper, in which Woody Allen’s character is frozen and is revived in the year 2173:

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.”
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or… hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy… precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

During his last campaign, she made some particularly salty remarks which the audience loved. Bemused, he said the opinions expressed by his mother were not necessarily his own. It just isn’t right that it went like this.

Yikes, nominate her to fill the seat until the next election.