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美国长寿老年妇女苏姗娜∙马莎特∙琼斯（Susannah Mushatt Jones）于5月12日在纽约辞世，享年116岁，走完了跨越了三个世纪的生命历程。她生前是全世界寿命最长的在世老人。

她的甥侄辈亲友有100个之多，他们都亲热地称她为“Miss Susie”（苏西姐）。她一生大部分时间都在工作，主要从事管家和保姆之类的服务。他认为自己长寿是因为睡眠充足，不吸烟，也不喝酒。她于1899年7月在阿拉巴马州（Alabama）乡村地区出生，父母是佃农，祖父母是昔日的奴隶。

据老年医学研究人员说，苏姗娜去世后，全世界仍在世的最长寿的老人是1899年11月29日出生在意大利韦尔巴尼亚（Verbania）的爱玛∙莫拉诺∙马丁努齐（Emma Morano-Martinuzzi）。 

据世界卫生组织（World Health Organization）提供的资料，在全世界范围内，人口出生时的平均预期寿命是71岁，日本的预期寿命最长，为84岁；严重受艾滋病侵扰的塞拉利昂最短，仅为46岁。

据老年医学研究集团（Gerontology Research Group） 的资料，全球仅有40人活到110岁或110岁以上。1997年去世的法国妇女珍妮∙卡尔门特（Jeanne Calment）寿命长达122岁，经核实成为有史以来寿命最长的老人。 

Susannah Mushatt Jones: An American woman whose life spanned 3 centuries

 Susannah Mushatt Jones, whose life spanned three centuries, has died at age 116 and passed the title of the world’s oldest person to an Italian woman four months her junior.

“Miss Susie,” as her 100 nieces and nephews called her, died May 12 in New York. She worked most of her life as a live-in housekeeper and child-care provider and attributed her longevity to lots of sleep and no smoking or drinking alcohol. She was born in rural Alabama on July 6, 1899, the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves.

Emma Morano-Martinuzzi of Verbania, Italy, born Nov. 29, 1899, is now the oldest person living, according to gerontology researchers.

Globally the average life expectancy at birth is 71, according to the World Health Organization. People in Japan tend to live longest (84) and those in Sierra Leone, hit hard by the AIDS epidemic, shortest (46).

Very, very few of us will make it to Miss Susie’s age. The Gerontology Research Group lists only about four dozen people on the planet who are 110 or older. Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who died in 1997 at the age of 122 holds the all-time, verified recor