<div id="hn-headline">World's oldest person dies in Los Angeles at 115 <p class="hn-byline">By JOHN ROGERS (AP) – <span class="hn-date">

LOS ANGELES — Although she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, she never drank, smoked or fooled around, Gertrude Baines once said, describing a life that lasted an astonishing 115 years and earned her the title of oldest person on the planet.

It was a title Baines quietly relinquished Friday when she died in her sleep at Western Convalescent Hospital, her home since she gave up living alone at age 107 after breaking a hip.

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I met an awesome lady in her nineties once who wrote a book on her personal philosophy. It was called "Yoga in the morning, martini at night," or something like that. She was a hoot. I don't know her astrology, though.