(04-16-2017, 12:45 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:(04-16-2017, 12:21 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-16-2017, 12:12 PM)The Wonkette Wrote: Emma Morano, 29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017, the last human verified to have lived in the 19th century, died yesterday.
From Wikipedia.
Quote:Emma Martina Luigia Morano (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian who, prior to her death at the age of 117 years and 137 days, was the world's oldest living person whose age had been verified, and the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s.
She was the oldest Italian person ever, the second oldest European person ever behind Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, and one of the five verified oldest people ever.
Does that make her the last Lost?
Strauss and Howe start the GI Generation in 1901 but it only applies to the US. There are two living people who were born in 1900, according to Wikipedia. One is Jamaican and one is Japanese, so I don't know whether you can properly call them (or Emma Morano, for that matter), "Lost".
The oldest living man, incidentally, is a Holocaust survivor living in Israel.
1900 is still Lost.
The last known Missionary died just before 2000. The last Lost will live into the late 2010s (we are already there). Barring unforeseen extensions of lifespans, the last GIs will be around 2040. the last Silent around 2060, and the last Boomers most likely around 2080.
With better habits than those of the Lost and with more people, GIs and the Silent (who have been imitating GI habits) may be around for a little longer than the Lost.
Of course people have been trading off social realities (childhood diseases, early starvation) for others (war, executions, plagues, and transportation accidents) that kill young adults, heart disease and cancer, and now prion diseases. Even automobile accidents mirrored horse-related deaths in the pre-automobile era (being thrown by or trampled by horses) in the early part of the 20th century. For now, food supplies are better, medical treatment is more certain, vehicles and roads are becoming safer, and war is becoming a rarity in much of the world.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.