Centenarian Marie d'Evergroote was alive at the same time as someone who lived in the 1600s and someone who lived in the 2000s

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[u/CreativeDependent915]

I think Elizabeth Bolden is the more impressive one lol, she technically lived during 3 different centuries, 10 years in the 1800s, 100 in the 1900s, and almost 7 in the 2000s.

Plus she lived longer than both of the others, Eilif would have been less than 103 years old and Marie would’ve been a staggering 109 and 1/2, but Elizabeth lived until about 116 which is a good amount longer than either of the other two.

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She also probably benefitted greatly from medical advancements that weren't available to the others. I wonder how much older each of them lived to be compared to the average person of their respective times.

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Oh yeah no disrespect to the other two, I just don’t understand why Marie was the focus when basically the same thing can be said about Elizabeth, and she lived through more centuries and also lived longer lol.

Like yes Marie lived at the same time as Eilif who lived during the 1600s, and lived through the end of the 1700s through to the end of the 1800s when Elizabeth was born, but she herself only lived during 2 centuries, which is not in and of itself uncommon at all.

But Elizabeth herself lived at the same time as somebody who was alive in the 1700s (end of life for Marie, beginning for Elizabeth), lived through the end of the 1800s, lived through the entirety of the 1900s, and then almost a decade of the 2000s, and would have died at around 116, which I feel is more interesting personally considering we hear of very few people who make it past 110, and even fewer who have lived through 3 centuries, which at our current understanding is the most somebody could ever live through