Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband.

This isn't just good news for the oldest old and for society in general; it also provides clues about how more of us might achieve a long and healthy old age.

I hope I can do it before I’m too old.

That's remarkable in its own right, but the real "population explosion" has been among the oldest of the old - the centenarians.

Now Jehoiada was old and full of years, and he died at the age of a hundred and thirty.