many news agencies reported today that the world's oldest person, ms eunice sanborn, aged 115, died at her east texas home in the usa on monday. she has lived under 21 of the 43 us presidents and survived 3 husbands and even outlived her only child, a daughter, who died at aged 90 years.
ms sanborn credited her longevity to her belief in Jesus Christ and good genes. and to give a perspective of ms sanborn's long life, she has lived in 3 centuries (19th, 20th and 21 century), 2 world wars, the great depression of the late 20s and the recent great recession.
according to the gerontology research group, the title of the next oldest man and woman now goes to a man, aged 114 years living in montans and ms besse cooper of georgia, also aged 114 years.
my comments:
and guess what? our very own supercentenarian, ms teresa hsu chih, popularly known as a humanitarian will be celebrating her 113th birthday this year (born july 07, 1898) as well.
what'm i trying to say?
firstly, the most alarming stats that most folks here have not planned for their retirement and therefore, the consequence of money no enough (with apologies to jack neo) in their golden years.
and although our government has put in place, an annuity scheme like the cpf life plan for older singaporeans (since september 05, 2009), the take-up so far is just 60,000 out of a pool of over 700,000.
therefore, there should be an urgency on the part of the present population (and the sooner, the better) to plan for their retirement, bearing in mind, the fact that many will outlive the present life expectancy of 85 to 90 years.
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