morbi death did not come as a mournful thing for this 119year old lady whose funeral procession saw her community members sprinkle holi colours amid band playing foot tapping tunesin an unprecedented celebration of death members of prajapati community on tuesday bid the final adieu to amrutben nagevadiya believed to have lived for 119 years there is no cause for mourning as it is the victory of life over death amrutben literally lived up to her name which means the nectar of life her life was death defying in true sense as she kept it at bay for 119 years therefore our community decided to celebrate her demise in a grand way explained community leader damji prajapati as no birth records were maintained by village panchayat in the late 19th century doubts were raised over amrutbens age the matter of her age is like folklore to us as there was no system of recording births in those times we decided to go by our community elders belief which states amrutbens year of birth was 1890 he said despite living to such grand old age amrutben led a healthy life and had never required anyones support she is survived by a daughter jaya also an old lady living with her husband in rajkot amrutben was living alone in morbi to her the whole prajapati community was her family he addedsource sandesh