To begin her own obituary, Nova Scotia’s Gwendolyn Tobin noted that she “loved pizza.”“The truth is I enjoyed eating just about everything: lobsters, ice cream, yogurt-covered pretzels, you name it,” reads the message published in the Cape Breton Post. Tobin’ or more simply ‘Gwen dear’, as in ‘How are you, Gwen dear?’” she wrote. Only one regret makes it into the obituary: That Tobin never learned to drive. Although Cape Breton Island has a population of only 130,000, it does seem to punch above its weight when it comes to producing vibrant old people. In 2004, a 113-year-old Cape Breton nun, Annie Samson, briefly held the title as Canada’s oldest person.

Source: National Post March 13, 2019 18:33 UTC