World's oldest person dies, giving title to Japanese supercentenarian
Some sad news out of Jamaica: the world's oldest person has died.
Violet Mosse-Brown was 117 years old, born on March 10, 1900, in Jamaica.
The prime minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, posted about Mosse-Brown's death Friday evening.
With her death, Japanese 117-year-old Nabi Tajima is now the known oldest human on the planet. She was born on Aug. 4, 1900, in Japan, a few months after Mosse-Brown.
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Mosse-Brown held the title of oldest living person for only a few months. She had been given the honor back in April when Italy's Emma Morano died, also at the age of 117.
Mosse-Brown told a local Jamaican news outlet that she didn't have a secret to longevity, but she hinted at some tricks. "When people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don't drink rum and them things," she said back in April.
Here's to a very long life lived well.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
