2024-01-02 08:06:00
A man who was born in the early 20th century and was the oldest person in Italy at 111 years old passed away a day before the new year of 2024.
According to the British Guardian on the 1st (local time), Tripoli Giannini, born on August 20, 1912, passed away at his home in Cecina, Tuscany, on December 31 last year. “His father believed himself to be immortal, but he passed away at 9:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, at a record age of 111 years and 133 days,” Giannini’s son Romano said on social media. He went on to add, “(In heaven) he would have been reunited with his wife and my mother, who had waited for him for over 40 years.”
Giannini was born in 1912, the year the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic. In June of the same year he was the second-oldest person in Europe, following André Ludwig of France, who was born 75 days before him. Giannini, who lived through two world wars, also overcame the Spanish flu in 1918, which killed regarding 50 million people, and the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), but ultimately died at the age of 111.
At his birthday celebration in August last year, he cited “a light meal with wine and a stress-free life” as the secret to a long life. He also revealed that “I don’t smoke and I live each day as a gift.”
Italy is one of the countries with the longest life expectancy in Europe, but the recent decline in birth rate and population aging have put a red light on its pension and medical systems. According to the Italian National Statistical Office, the number of people over 100 years old reached a record high of 22,000 last year, and the total fertility rate was also 1.25 as of 2021, the lowest among member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Reporter Kim Cheol-joong [email protected]
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