When it comes to living a long, full life, everyone has different advice.  If you ask the world’s oldest man, he’ll tell you one thing.  If you ask the oldest woman on Facebook, no doubt she’ll tell you something else.  The one thing they’ll all tell you is that life will eventually end.  Eunice G. Sanborn, the world’s oldest living woman, passed away at her Jacksonville, Texas, home on Monday.  Amazingly enough, Eunice outlived three husbands and a daughter, who lived to be 90 but still couldn’t match her mother’s longevity.  Ms. Sanborn lived alone, with helpers, since her daughter and her husband passed away in 2007.

“I don’t know how long I’ll be here, but I’ve enjoyed it,” Ms. Sanborn told the Houston Chronicle in 2007.  “Life is a wonderful thing if you make it that way.  If you don’t make it right, it isn’t wonderful.  If you do things right and love the Lord, you’ll be all right.”

Sanborn’s record was verified by the Los Angeles, California-based Gerontology Research Group, who used information from the 1900 census to verify Eunice’s age.  Ms. Sanborn’s death was confirmed by Patricia Ellis of Boren-Conner Funeral Home in Jacksonville.

The new world’s oldest living woman, Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia, is 114 years 5 months old.

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