An Article from the BBC

 World's Oldest Man, Walter Breuning, Dies In US Aged 114

Breuning died of natural causes in a Montana hospital. He had been in hospital since the beginning of the month with an undisclosed illness.

Breuning was 26 days younger than Besse Cooper of Georgia, USA, who was the world's oldest person at 114.

In an interview last autumn, Breuning said that the secret to his old age was eating just two meals a day, working as long as he could and always embracing change - especially death.

"We're all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die," he said.

Breuning was born on Sept 21, 1896, in Minnesota and spent his early years in South Dakota. That first decade of the 1900s was literally a dark age for his family.

They had no electricity or running water. A bath for young Walter would require his mother to fetch water from the well outside and heat it on the coal-burning stove.
  

GLOSSARY

Natural causes- Something happening naturally 

Spokesman-noun ,a person who makes statements on behalf of a group: 

Retirement -noun the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work:

Undisclosed -adjective, it is secret

Illness -a disease of the body or mind

Embrace -to accept something enthusiastically

Secret -a piece of information that is only known by one person or a few people and should not be told to others

Afraid- feeling of fear, or feeling worry about the possible results of a particular situation

Decade- a period of ten years, especially a period such as 1860 to 1869, or 1990 to 1999

Dark Age -the period of time in the middle ages

Fetch-to go to another place to get something or someone and bring them back

Well-A deep hole or shaft sunk into the earth to obtain water, oil, gas, or brine.

Coal-burning stove-A Stove that runs on coal