World's oldest man dies in NY at age 112

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Source: AP

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Guinness World Records says the former musician and coal miner certified as the world's oldest man has died. Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez (sah-luh-stee-AH'-noh SAHN'-chez BLAHZ'-kehz) was 112.

Guinness consultant Robert Young says Sanchez-Blazquez died Friday at a nursing home in Grand Island, N.Y.

Nicknamed "Shorty," Sanchez-Blazquez became the world's oldest man when Jiroemon Kimura died in June at age 116.

Sanchez-Blazquez was born June 8, 1901, in the village of El Tejado de Bejar, Spain. He moved to Cuba at 17, then to the United States in 1920 where he worked the coal mines of Lynch, Ky. He eventually moved to the Niagara Falls area.

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[BlueJazz]

1. He was conceived in 1899. Wow!

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. An 18 month gestation would be unusual

Born June 1901.

[BlueJazz]

3. Oh....ah....Women were different back then. Boy!...The've really made progress. Good for them.

I'm an idiot.

[jberryhill]

4. Maybe that's why he lived so long

[Downwinder]

12. If he had lived in Arkansas they might have killed him at 107.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Proof that the pace was much slower back then.

That's what my grandparents always told me, anyway.

[olddad56]

20. proof that the world is spinning faster these says.

[former9thward]

5. Lucky him!

At least he died peacefully unlike a certain 107 year old in Arkansas who had his life ended by police bullets.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Imagine working in the mines, and living this long.

Working conditions must have been hell back then.

Remarkable indeed.

[Heather MC]

8. The curse of being labeled the oldest living human. It never fails they always die shortly after

being crowned the oldest
WHYYYYY!!!!!

[markpkessinger]

22. LOL!

Something tells me most of them are probably pretty reconciled to that eventuality by that point in their lives.

[Heather MC]

24. I think it's a curse

[nomorenomore08]

23. A person that old has an extremely high chance of dying, period.

So I'm sure it's coincidental that they tend to die "shortly after" being recognized.

[grantcart]

9. What a shocker!

[DavidDvorkin]

10. This is Obama's fault.

[mimi85]

15. Everything bad is Obama's fault. j/k

I know you're were being sarcastic (I hope).

However, I'm sick of PBO getting blamed for everything from others - from the weather to the Kardashians.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. Yes, that was sarcasm.

Although I half expect to hear someone say it seriously.

Not on DU, I hope.

[Th1onein]

11. Let me guess--He was shot to death by cops, right?

Holed up in his room, angry because no potatoes served tonight in the dining hall, they couldn't let him sit there like that, so they filled him full of lead.

[gopiscrap]

13. I'm not sure I want to live that long.

[markpkessinger]

21. For me it depends . . .

. . . I can deal with some level of physical infirmity, and would expect it to be likely. I could live with that so long as I still had my wits about me. But, in my case, given the various "gifts" of genetics, if I make it to 75 I will have already beaten the odds! (Although I do have one great aunt who is still kicking, and doing well, at 102!)

[jlayson]

14. Nobody gets out alive n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. As of now.

[cvoogt]

16. Cause of death?

Article doesn't say

[Plucketeer]

19. Old Age

That's gonna get you eventually - if nothing else gets you first!