Talk:Francisco Malabo Beosá

Credibility of age
Reports of third world persons living to extreme old age must always be treated with skepticism. Is there any credible evidence that Francisco Malabo Beosa was 105 when he died? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 05:01, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * You should consider signing your posts if you're going to question article credibility. King Malabo did not die in a third world environment. His region was colonized and developed by the Spaniards. Also, people living to extreme old age have long existed in 1st, 2nd and 3rd worlds. I think it's pretty ignorant to think that people can't, or have never, lived until extreme old age in places not as developed as the U.S., people living traditional lifestyles more closely similar to their ancestors, or in less modern regions. Third world has never automatically equated to destitute poverty, pollution, poor health conditions or bad lifestyles. That's simply a stigma, a label, that the Western world likes to place on nations whose populations aren't westernized, or as westernized, as they think they should be. The Equatorial Guinea of today is not what it was at the turn of the 20th century. Malabo, specifically, was a very clean, orderly, area with relatively new and stable infrastructure that included finely crafted Spanish styled built schools, homes and hospitals. The people living in villages still were able to sustain themselves off of unpolluted lands.  He lived during a time where people were more dependent on agriculture, the food sources were not as polluted and when humans lead more active lifestyles. Why wouldn't someone life long, especially if they had resources available to them to do so? He was the last tribal leaders with a huge upwardly mobile family and was, likely, well cared for. Also, the article that states his age, at the time of death, as being 105 is cited from El Mundo (Spain) which is a credible source. Bab-a-lot (talk) 11:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)