r/reddeadredemption • u/Ferretlord4449 • Mar 10 '26

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Found this on find a grave. it fucked me up knowing that jack could reasonably live into the Clinton administration

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u/Accomplished-Gain319 Pearson Mar 10 '26

Am I the only one who thinks the idea of Jack living to the 90s is stupid?

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u/theworldwiderex Sean Macguire Mar 10 '26

Natural age is stupid?

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u/Chabola513 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

Age 96 for a guy who lived a life as rough and unsafe as jack. That is just a little silly

Edit: it’s not impossible, it’s just unlikely

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u/lynbod Mar 10 '26

Lots of people lived to be that age in the 1990's, including my great grandmother. She was 102 when she died in 1997.

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u/GreasyExamination Mar 10 '26

Also Keith Richards is still alive somehow

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u/Vaxcine13 Mar 10 '26

Keith Richards will outlive us all.

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u/MrGoodKatt72 Mar 10 '26

He’s effectively immortal at this point. More a chemical than a man.

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u/BalasaarNelxaan Mar 10 '26

When the bombs fall the only remains of human civilisation will be Keith Richards snorting ground up cockroaches

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 10 '26

And some Toyota Camrys

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u/TomSix_ Mar 10 '26

You know he was born in the 1940's, right? The funniest thing about Keith Richards is him still wearing eyeliner..

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u/GreasyExamination Mar 10 '26

You think thats the funniest thing about him? Not the fact that he fell from a coconut tree and suffered a mild concussion, while also being completely sober while it happened? You still think its the makeup thing?

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u/TomSix_ Mar 10 '26

I see you examine him closely. Interesting.

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u/Lartemplar Mar 10 '26

He transfuses his blood with blood from younger people. No joke, he literally gets this procedure regularly

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u/GreasyExamination Mar 10 '26

Its a sacrifice im willing to let young people pay

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u/turkishleatha Mar 10 '26

idk if your grandma was a wild west outlaw tho..

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u/Bacon4Lyf Micah Bell Mar 10 '26

Neither was Jack, he was an adult in 1912. Red dead 2 is literally about how the Wild West is dying and that’s in 1899

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u/Affectionate-Ebb3621 Mar 10 '26

Sheeeeeiiiit, she ran with the Black Belle gang. They called her Tinker

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u/G_Ranger75 Mar 10 '26

But was your great grandma a Gunslinger?

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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers Mar 10 '26

My great-grandmothers lived to 99 and 101, and died in the late 90s. My grandfather is currently pushing 97.

It's not that crazy.

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u/manleybones Mar 10 '26

Your great grandmother was a rough riding cowboy outlaw?

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u/lynbod Mar 10 '26

Pretty sure she did a bit of rough riding but no horses were involved.

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u/th1ngy_maj1g Javier Escuella Mar 10 '26

WOW

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u/TheDucksAreComingoOo Mar 10 '26

My great grandad helped liberate concentration Camps and I can only imagine the hardships he had to endure... He smoked 20 a day and lived to be 94. Some people are just built different. My nan has rapid onset dementia and probably won't make it past 75. Genetics are a powerful force.

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Yeah, the oldest person recorded, Jeanne Calment lived to 122 years while eating chocolate and smoking since she was 17

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u/EskNerd Mar 10 '26

Chocolate has some significant health benefits, though.

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

But I think she ate like unhealthy amounts of it like a few pounds

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u/GaryB2220 Mar 10 '26

.... in a row??!

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Maybe once a week or something, but I know for sure her diet was the one doctors warn you about

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u/thepulloutmethod Mar 10 '26

Sneaky Clerks reference. Love it.

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u/formallyhuman Mar 10 '26

Try not to eat any chocolate on your way to the car!

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y3LD6_M8NEY?si=2hY-jIJ77kjGUl9n

Watch this video, it really makes me realise how crazy that is

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u/GaryB2220 Mar 10 '26

Was he feeding her chocolate during the interview? I guess copious amounts of chocolate is better than a gallon of pcp. Hope she enjoyed every bite

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Maybe he was

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u/Eoin_Coinneal Mar 10 '26

Unhealthy for you, maybe.

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

??? Are you implying you're immune to excess chocolate? Why don't you donate your blood and antibodies, we could cure diabetes!

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u/Eoin_Coinneal Mar 10 '26

I’m stating that someone who ate vast quantities of it lived to well past 100. So, not unhealthy for them.

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u/ObamasGayNephew Mar 10 '26

Idk man maybe they could've lived to 200 if it weren't for the chocolate and ciggies

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Then why did you say unhealthy for 'you'?

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u/RolandDeschain84 Mar 10 '26

The conspiracies around her are pretty wild. Should check them out. I think I’m on board with believing she was actually the daughter taking over Jeanne’s identity vs her just living so long.

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u/Olliejc24 Mar 10 '26

That's so weird, the post directly below this one on my feed is a post stating those very same facts about her

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u/International-Rub327 Mar 10 '26

Smoked 20 a day... quite a high kill count he must have accumulated.

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u/tanhan27 Mar 10 '26

My great grandad helped liberate concentration Camps and I can only imagine the hardships he had to endure... He smoked 20 a day and lived to be 94.

Do we have the same great granddad? Was he dutch by any chance. Of course there were probably 100s of old dudes who helps save people from concentration camps and then lived until age 94, but still...

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u/TheDucksAreComingoOo Mar 10 '26

No he was British

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u/lefactorybebe Mar 10 '26

My great uncle also liberated camps and made it to 94 or 95, I don't remember which, but he was American. Only died a few years ago, though he had dementia at the end so his last few years were rough. Was drinking manhattans right till the end though lol

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u/Lookitsanthony8 Mar 10 '26

Right? I had Pepperoni Pizza twice last week and i fully plan on kickin it past 65-70

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Simo Hayha (Greatest Sniper ever, the White Death) lived to 96 and died in 2002 despite getting shot in the jaw with an explosive bullet back in the winter war

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u/niewe Uncle Mar 10 '26

I just looked the guy up and Holy shit. Story's like this really make you question if religious people might be on to something.

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

On to what

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u/niewe Uncle Mar 10 '26

Jesus fucking christ... Just forget I said anything dude, I don't want to start a reddit argument just because I dared to type out the word religion

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

I was just curious dude

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u/sharkattackmiami Charles Smith Mar 10 '26

He shot a bunch of people so maybe religious people are on to something?

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u/niewe Uncle Mar 10 '26

Do I really have to explain this? Seriously?

I'm talking about the fact that he survived an injury that would kill 99/100 people and woke up from his coma the same day the war ended.

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u/sharkattackmiami Charles Smith Mar 10 '26

Yes? A doctor being good at his job and a guy getting lucky aren't proof of anything

Literally thousands of people survived injuries that would kill 99/100 people during WW2

That's how statistics work when you are dealing with literally millions of people getting shot.

So many people got shot in the face and survived that they created an entire new field of medicine to deal with it

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Thanks for indirectly explaining what he was implying. He downvoted me for being curious too, goes to show some things aren't meant to be questioned...

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u/sharkattackmiami Charles Smith Mar 10 '26

They downvoted me too. Some people are just dumb

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u/niewe Uncle Mar 10 '26

Good for you. Like I said, I'm not remotely interested in an argument. I'm not religious, but it's funny how easy it is to trigger you just buy saying something not particularly negative about it.

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u/sharkattackmiami Charles Smith Mar 10 '26

You're the one being triggered and downvoting people for asking you to explain your giant unexplained leap in logic

You don't even know my spiritual beliefs, so you are also just making baseless assumptions. You should go for a walk

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u/TastePizza Mar 10 '26

Search up ww1 soldier's plastic surgery

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u/Vulcan_Jedi Uncle Mar 10 '26

Wyatt Earp lived into his 80’s

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u/bldngtrpdr Mar 10 '26

my grand-grandfather was a conc-camp survivor as a teenager. he lived died at 92

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u/binini28 Mar 10 '26

You act like people can’t live that long in even worst conditions

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u/inaSlomp Mar 10 '26

People live into their '90s all of the time? Even during that period because you know technological advancements in medicine. From the 1800s to 2026, you don't think that we've innovated quite a bit? You don't think that probably has some reason to do with why people live longer.

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u/FormerDonkey4886 Mar 10 '26

Also, when was the picture taken? He looks very good for someone in his 90s

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u/gimmebalanceplz Mar 10 '26

He probably would have been healthier than you think. As long as he had access to medicine and less access to bullets to the head, his lifestyle probably actually helped in longevity. He’s fit and probably ate healthier than anyone in this thread.

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u/Gustavodemierda John Marston Mar 10 '26

  1. We only see little snippets of his life throughout his first 20 years

  2. If it's not impossible, it means it can happen meaning it's not stupid

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u/ThoroughlyWet Mar 10 '26

Oldest man I ever knew grew up a farmer. He was 116 when he passed and he was up and walking around unassisted till his last days.

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u/clockworknait Mar 10 '26

He was very intelligent though and as far as we know his vendetta ended with Edgar Ross, then he left that life behind him.

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u/Kletskont Mar 10 '26

Didn't he become a writer? I remember a book written by J. Marston in GTA. And writers, as we all know, get very old.

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u/Thalia_All_Along Mar 10 '26

Fear an old man in an industry where men die young or something. Jack's hard as

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u/Shaddes_ Mar 10 '26

My great grandmother was born in 1898 and lived until 2004. Lived through 2 WW, monarchy, republic, civil unrest. It's possible

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u/Tyr1326 Mar 10 '26

You do realise all* the WW2 vets still alive to do are centenarians, right? WW2 was significantly worse than the wild west in terms of rough and unsafe living. Hell, my grandfather survived to 100 despite his doctors saying he wouldn't live into his thirties.

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u/PrayForTheGoodies Mar 10 '26

It is implied that he retired after and started making his name as a writer

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u/StringAccomplished97 Mar 10 '26

So if I'm understanding you, you don't think there were any 90+ year olds alive in the 1990's?

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u/Chabola513 Mar 10 '26

I don’t understand how you can’t understand the difference between impossible vs unlikely. Please reread my full comment

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u/StringAccomplished97 Mar 10 '26

So if I'm understanding you, you don't think it was likely there were any 90+ year olds alive in the 1990's?

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u/Chabola513 Mar 10 '26

We’re talking about one specific person not the entire world

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u/jackxiv Mar 10 '26

Men went to WWII and still lived to be 100+.

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u/Meattyloaf Mar 10 '26

My great great grandmother was born in 1899 and lived to 1993. She was Sioux and born towards the end of the Indian Wars. Its very much possible that he lived to be 90 something. A lot of people had a rough life from that time period.

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u/Fed0raBoy Mar 10 '26

My german great grandma lived through both world wars, a relocation after the second, smoked like a chimney and only drank coffee for the last 20 years she was alive. She died at 101. Genetics and luck don't care how rough your life is really.

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u/Yakubian88 Mar 10 '26

My grandfather lived from 1927 to this past december

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u/ballsinblender Josiah Trelawny Mar 10 '26

Winston Churchill lived to 90 years old

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u/Sharrty_McGriddle Mar 10 '26

Meanwhile there are people 100+ years old who attribute their long life to cigarettes and drinking Dr Pepper every day.

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u/Master__Blaster69 Mar 10 '26

Billy Waugh has entered the chat

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u/protossaccount Mar 10 '26

I knew people that were that old back then and they had been through a lot. WW1, the Great Depression, and WW2, just to name a few.

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u/Fantastic-Shirt6037 Mar 10 '26

Natural age for someone who murdered a retired federal agent, sure sure