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Mark Barna, Discover • Sun 2018 Jul 1, 1:27pm

…after the age of 105, human mortality seems to hit a plateau. That is, you aren’t any more likely to die at 110 than at 105. …

Nagasaki mushroom cloud
Wikipedia • Mon 2018 Jan 29, 6:06pm

Tsutomu Yamaguchi (March 16, 1916 – January 4, 2010) was a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 69 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.…

GGE, Ace of Spades • Mon 2018 Jan 15, 1:57am

…My maternal grandfather lost his left arm up to the elbow in a corn picker PTO shaft. This would have been sometime in the mid 50's, before my aunt was born. She says she's glad he never had two hands when she was growing up, he was mean enough with just one. Grand-dad was a stern fellow. Tough old bastard, too, he managed to kick the drive lever into neutral and disengage himself from the PTO shaft, then he unhooked the tractor from the corn picker and drove himself to the house so that Grandmother could drive him to the hospital.…

The topic was unfortunate PTO engagements, but this one took the cake.
The Local • Wed 2018 Jan 10, 12:55pm

Morgue staff hear snoring from body bag and make an amazing discovery…

You have one guess what they discovered.

…had been declared dead by three doctors…

Sunny Skyz • Mon 2017 Nov 27, 11:41am

A crew of paramedics in Australia made a detour to the beach for a palliative care patient who asked to see the ocean one last time.…

Moving story. Nice photo.
Ruth Tontz McGuire, NewsOK / The Oklahoman • Wed 2016 Oct 12, 4:31pm

Guthrie Oklahoma… Max Norris Rahe… born Sept. 26, 1916… “My parents, Seretta and Wilbert, were part of the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, homesteading north of Crescent,” Rahe said.

“Being the youngest of eight children, I was a baby when my oldest brother, Durrill Rahe, joined the service during World War I. He died on the battlefield in France.”…

As pilot commander of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber, he flew 35 combat missions.…

"I am lucky to have lived such a long, happy and successful life.”

Quite a life
Breitbart Jerusalem • Thu 2016 Sep 15, 11:31am

…After 100 years of waiting, the oldest man alive is finally getting the celebration he deserves.
Israel Kristal (pictured), a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor didn’t get to celebrate becoming a man according to Jewish tradition.…

Quite a life.
Lexi Finnigan, Telegraph (UK) • Thu 2016 Sep 1, 5:58pm

When Ruby and Rosie Formosa were born joined at the abdomen and sharing part of an intestine, their parents were told the conjoined twins had a 25 per cent chance of survival.

Now, four years after an emergency operation to separate them saved their lives, they are preparing to go to school for the first time.…

Star Bright
Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune • Fri 2016 Aug 5, 11:54am

…“Everyone was determined they weren’t going to let go of that lady for any reason.”…

Fox News • Sun 2016 Jul 31, 9:56am

Skydiver Luke Aikens became the first person ever to jump out of a plane and into a net on the ground without utilizing a parachute…

Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart • Fri 2016 Jul 15, 11:56pm

Dr. Tzur Gabi, a dentist from West Hollywood, California practicing in nearby Brentwood, was in Nice, France during the terror attack on Bastille Day — directly in the path of the truck that killed dozens of people. He was saved by his Israeli girlfriend, Meital, who pulled him from the crowd when she sensed that something was about to happen.…

Kara Pendleton, Independent Journal • Thu 2016 Jul 7, 1:42pm

…That is when Martin felt the boy beneath the sand and saw his blue swim trunks. The 3-foot hole the toddler was digging had collapsed on top of him.… “We started digging, and Jesse found this little boy, Brooks, and pulled him out. He was ash grey, he was dead. He was dead. So we pulled him out, and the mom was just beside herself.” Despite the grim situation, the men didn’t give up hope. They administered CPR and within a minute the boy’s lips began to quiver. Within a few more minutes, he was breathing on his own and screaming for his mother.…

Breitbart News • Tue 2016 Jun 28, 12:54am

An elderly man who lost consciousness during a flight this weekend and was all but taken for dead regained his pulse and consciousness after Tim Tebow reportedly walked down the aisle and prayed with the entire section of plane and the gentleman’s family.…

Dan Bowman, Wimp.com • Thu 2016 May 26, 1:44pm

…Baby Adam's family refused to take him home from the hospital after he was born. Then, they went even further, adding that, if they did take him home, Baby Adam would be poisoned!… born without his eyelids, a nose, or hands… legs were fused together…

Will Adam be okay? His doctor, John van Aalst, says much remains to be done, but adds, "Is he going to be perfect? Yes, he's already perfect."

Matthew Diebel, USA Today • Fri 2016 May 13, 4:50pm

…Emma Morano is now the oldest living person. …lives on her own in northern Italy. …“She was told this morning and she said ‘My word, I’m as old as the hills,’ but she was very pleased…” eats a raw egg each day, ever since a doctor's recommendation when she was diagnosed with anemia at the age of 20…

Mary Beth Quirk, Consumerist • Wed 2016 May 11, 11:08am

…Employees at the Domino’s were concerned after they hadn’t received an order from a regular customer in 11 days… “He orders every day, every other day…” After they realized the unusual gap in his orders, the manager sent one of the pizza delivery drivers to the customer’s home to check on him, knowing that the man has health issues.…

Gitzel Puente, KJRH • Sat 2016 May 7, 9:44pm

The oldest person in Oklahoma was born on October 1, 1906 in the town of Marrieta. This year Mittie Dailey will be 110 years old. … Dailey's family has six living generations.… Dailey said the secret to a long and happy life is God. "Her favorite saying is God is God and always will be God," said her daughter.…

Nickarama, Weasel Zippers • Sat 2016 Apr 16, 7:10pm

…On Friday, an 8-month-old baby was pulled from the rubble of Japan’s devastating earthquake. Rescuers cradled the infant who was apparently unharmed.… it took six hours to reach the baby, who has reportedly reunited with her parents. It is unclear how many more people could still be trapped under debris.…

Quoting from CBS
Kalhan Rosenblatt, Mail (UK) • Wed 2016 Mar 23, 2:39pm

Mormon missionary Mason Wells, 19, has survived his third terrorist attack. Mason was in Paris last year during the attacks and a block away from the finish line of the Boston Marathon during the bombings. The teen suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, injuries from shrapnel and second- and third-degree burns on his face and hands. Despite his injuries, his parents said he is in good spirits and expected to make a full recovery…

Joe Dyke, Yahoo News / AFP • Sat 2016 Mar 12, 11:19pm

Yisrael Kristal survived two world wars and the Holocaust but doesn't consider himself particularly remarkable, despite being named the world's oldest living man Friday at age 112.

The Israeli was born in what is now Poland on September 15, 1903, three months before the Wright brothers' first powered and controlled aeroplane flight.

He lived there after the First World War until the Nazi occupation in World War II, when he was eventually sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Kristal survived and moved to Israel, where he has lived for over six decades.…

So, no man is left alive who was born in the 19th Century.
Chellie Mills, KFOR • Wed 2016 Feb 24, 9:41am

…The news something was wrong came just days after Sally and Brandon Bailey found out they were expecting twins. “Paige was growing significantly more than Ella was,” Sally said. … The girls had something called 'Twin to Twin Transfusion Sequence.' “Vessels from twin A, if you will, are very close to vessels from twin B…” "It's one of those things where one day they can be perfectly fine and the next day, if you don't do surgery within hours, then they die,” Sally said.… The answer was a risky, in-utero surgery where doctors use a laser to seal off the vessels. …“Literally, people all over the world started praying over our girls and slowly things started getting better,” Sally said.…

Okla Flag
K. Querry, KFOR-TV • Sat 2016 Jan 16, 6:10pm

…47-year-old Melissa Beaver, is lucky to be alive. Baylee Shelden, Carsen Young and Madison Schwenke decided to go hiking along the trail when they found a boot, which led them to Beaver halfway down the cliff. ……She wasn’t able to call for help since she lost her phone when she fell approximately 150 feet. “No one would have found her,” Young said.…

Helen Roberts, Daily Mail UK • Thu 2015 Sep 24, 9:25am

• Ritvik Ankush Tarte was taking part in archery practice when he was hit
• Arrow pierced schoolboy's skull from the right and exited on the other side
• The 11-year-old, from Maharashtra, was rushed to hospital for treatment
• Surgeons opened up his skull to remove arrow and he is making a recovery…

Lightning
William Bigelow, Breitbart • Mon 2015 Aug 10, 4:01pm

Two teenagers, boyfriend and girlfriend, are now joking that they have an “electric love” because they were struck by lightning while holding hands in Claremont on Thursday.… A doctor said that the young lovers’ lives were probably saved by the fact that they were holding hands….

Craig Hlavaty, chron.com • Tue 2015 Aug 4, 6:32pm

110-year-old New Jersey woman… Agnes Fenton of Englewood, New Jersey… credits Miller High Life and Johnnie Walker to her long life…

Andrew Horansky, WKYC-TV • Sat 2015 May 30, 7:06pm

…107-year old Lona Collins … Born in a rural part of Oklahoma in 1907… "We used to go in a horse and buggy!" …has beaten cancer twice and was married 65 years. Today even her great-grandchildren have children of their own. Her advice? "Don't go crabbin'!" she says with a smile.

Ariana Garza, KOCO • Tue 2015 May 5, 5:52pm

…"They shocked me," Lopez said. "About seven shocks later, I finally came to." … Though he has a humble and astounding sense of humor about his near-death experience, he considers it a miracle he didn't have to leave his wife and 11-month-old son behind for good. His mother, Penny, said it is all thanks to faith, the Oklahoma standard and the U.S. Army. …

[GoFundMe account set up for him]

Earthquake
Yahoo / AFP • Sun 2015 May 3, 8:23pm

A 101-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble of his house in Nepal seven days after it collapsed in a deadly earthquake… Funchu Tamang was rescued on Saturday with only minor injuries…

Earthquake
Heather Saul, Independent UK • Wed 2015 Apr 29, 7:36pm

Incredible images have emerged of the moment a four-month old baby was rescued from the rubble of a building devastated by the Nepal earthquake, 22 hours after the disaster struck. …reportedly in a stable condition in hospital… condition and whereabouts of his parents are unknown.

Leslie Ann Brown, The Black Sphere • Sun 2015 Apr 26, 7:20pm

…He stumbled and fell off of a subway platform onto the tracks below in a Philadelphia station.
Horrified, witnesses ran for help; but Charles Collins didn’t wait, and leapt into action, rescuing the elderly man. The two were lifted to safety by bystanders.… [Video]

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