But...he's dead...

[JackO]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10809128

A rather humourous story I found whilst searching the web...

Japanese officials go to congratulate the oldest man in Tokyo...to find that he's dead...and may have been that way for 30 years. Someone has some explaining to do 

[Serika]

His kids (grandkids?) didn't think that one all the way through. If they collect his pension payments until he's supposed to be around 120 years old then of course people are going to show up and ask "How do you live so long?!"

Seriously though, that's just creepy. I don't know how they were able to stomach having a corpse in their house for 30 years.

[Mighty Oracle]

Uh... wow. XD

[JackO]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100803/tod-tokyo-s-oldest-woman-awol-for-decade-870a197.html

GET IT TOGETHER, TOKYO 

[Serika]

New follow up story. There are 230,000 of these people that the Japanese government can't locate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071


They certainly have one hell of a mess on their hands now.

[JackO]

Japanese citizens are famous for their longevity

I like the caption under the photo, because actually, they're probably don't live all that long, its just no-one says they're dead.