An Indonesian man who claims to be the oldest person ever to have lived has celebrated his 146th birthday.
Mbah Gotho, from a small village in the Central Java province, has documentation that states he was born on 31 December 1870, and the Indonesian records office has said confirmed this was accurate.
If it is correct, this would earn him the title of the oldest person ever, a title currently held by French centenarian Jeanne Calment, who was 122 when she died.
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He is said to have begun preparing for his death in 1992, even having a gravestone made, but 24 years later he is still alive.
Mr Gotho has official documentation which shows his age, and the Indonesian records office says it has confirmed his birth date as December 31 1870.
It's probably his father's or grandfather's birth certificate and he has the same name there's no way he's 146 and there's no way his paper work is originally from 1870
the oldest person ever is a french lady who died aged 122
anything more than this is obviously made up. he's like 100 at most, lbr
Correct. The was recently a study that claims humans can generally live only up to 115 years, only the very very few can extend it up to an absolute maximum of 125. That French woman came close. This is fake.