Exactly: “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. In her final years, she passed her days watching her favorite TV program, ‘The Jerry Springer Show.’” Checking out at 72 never sounded so good.