Elderly couple. Archive photo MOSCOW, 6 Jan. A person should live 100 years, there are reports that people lived up to 180 years, but, perhaps, when they were born, there were no clear records yet, so it is impossible to say unequivocally. said in an interview with RIA Novosti President of the Bakulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, President of the All-Russian public organization «League of Health of the Nation», Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leo Bokeria.
& # 34; One hundred and fifty — I do not know, but how, you understand, a century is 100 years, a man. This means that we must live 100 years & # 34 ;, — said Bokeria.
He noted that there is information about a woman in Azerbaijan who allegedly lived for 180 years, but it is possible that at the time when she was born, not yet there were clear records, so it is impossible to establish her age for sure. «Here in England, I was in London, where a citizen who lived for 180 years was buried, right in the center of the city. And why is he buried there? Because when the king found out that the citizen 180 years old, he decided to invite him to visit, to get to know him. He invited him, fed him, and the poor man gorged himself, and died from volvulus. Feeling an infringement of his conscience, the king buried the deceased guest in the church where the reigning family is buried, «Bokeria said. 
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