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Essay: So You Want to Live to Be 100?

By Robert W. StockNov 24th 2009 – 3:04PM

(Nov. 24) -- Gertrude Baines, the oldest person in the world, died in Los Angeles in September at the age of 115. She was a very senior poster child for that traditional birthday wish, "May you live to be 100." Damian Dovarganes, AP Baines lived on her own until she was 105. By all accounts she was mentally alert,...

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