Here’s a strange CNN angle on a story: the 117 year old passed away, but I guess “eating was her motivation to live.” I guess the recently deceased woman and I have/had something in common. Food is great, food is good. 

Misao Okawa, Guiness World Record’s “world’s oldest person” passed away Wednesday morning in Osaka, Japan. A source told CNN that, in her last 10 days, Okawa stopped eating, and, when she lost motivation to live (i.e. eating), she passed away.

OK then.

The horribly written CNN article went on to say — very randomly, might I add — that “[Okawa] had eaten a lot of cake for her birthday last March 5.” Well good for Okawa. 

I’m sure there was much more to Okawa’s life than her love for food, but I guess CNN thought it was worthy to mention in excess in her article “obituary.”

Regardless of the whole food debacle, CNN reports that Okawa left behind three children, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Her family ran a Kimono shop in Osaka and she had been living in a retirement home since 1997.

That’s the CNN article on the death of the world’s oldest person in a nutshell. Awful. Please go read it and understand my criticism.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/asia/worlds-oldest-person-dies/index.html