Methuselah:
(plural: ‘Methuselahs‘; pronunciation: for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
Henry-Allingham, one of living Methuselahs
(According to the Bible)Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah, was supposed to have lived for 969 years;
a very very old man (or woman), living for more than a hundred years;
a super-centenarian,
a female Methuselah
There are five villages in the world, named ‘longevity villages’, where one can see more number of Methuselahs! (i.e. the people in these villages live to be very very old because of their diet and the weather in those places)
Though some scientists suggest that the way of life of a person makes him/her a Methuselah, but some others argue that it is not the way of life but the genes that make a person a Methuselah.
There are several organisations which are trying to find out the number of Methuselahs in the present world, and study how they have lived all these years… their diet, exercise, sex life, etc.
Note 2: ‘Methuselah’ is also used to things and animals which are believed to be very very old. For an article about the death of an old tortoise named ‘Methuselah’, please click here; for an article that discusses the age of ‘Methuselah star’, please click here; and for an article about a ‘Methuselah tree’, please click here.
