(((Okay, if not "forever," then who wants to live a really long time, becoming the touching relic of a vanished era? Don't all line up at once!)))
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/who-wants-to-live-for-ever-a-scientific-breakthrough-could-mean-humans-live-for-hundreds-of-years-772418.html
Enduring tales: the world's oldest people
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment's mother, father and brother lived to 86, 93 and 97 respectively. But nobody has eclipsed Jeanne herself, who died in 1997 aged 122 years and 164 days. Born in 1875, she met Vincent van Gogh when she was 14, and attended the 1885 funeral of Victor Hugo.
Shigechiyo Izumi
As well as holding the title of the oldest man to have lived, Izumi, from the Japanese island of Tokunoshima, holds the record for the longest career. A farmer, he worked from childhood until the age of 105, in a career that spanned 98 years. In spite of a weakness for sho-chu (a barley whisky) and taking up smoking at 70, he lived to 120. He died in 1986.
Edna Parker
Indiana-born Parker, 114, has outlived all her children, but her family includes 13 great-great-grandchildren. Now recognised as the world's oldest living person, she grew up on a farm. Still walking, she hobbles around her nursing home, where she enjoys reading and reciting poetry.
Charlotte Hughes
Hughes, a retired schoolteacher, is the oldest documented person in the UK. She married her husband, Noel, at the age of 63. He died aged 105, but Hughes went on to reach 115, dying in 1993.
Florrie Baldwin
Baldwin, born in 1896, lives in a Leeds nursing home. Britain's oldest living woman says she remembers meeting Queen Victoria on a royal visit, and reading about the end of the Boer War. She has outlived her husband, Clifford, by 35 years.
Henry Allingham
Allingham has found fame in recent years as the oldest veteran of the First World War, one of only a handful still alive. Born in 1896, south London-born Allingham, 111, is also Europe's oldest living man, and in the world is second only to Japan's Tomoji Tanabe.
