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102-year-old granny set the record for oldest person to skydive in a glorious video

Cheryl Kahla
Dec 22, 2018
06:50 P.M.

You only live once, and a 102-year-old woman decided that she'd be living her best life this year.

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Irene O'Shea from Athelstone, Australia, went skydiving for the first time back in 2016 for her 100th birthday. This year, she set a new record.

She became the oldest skydiver in the world. Read more on our Twitter account @amomama_usa and scroll down to watch the adorable video.

Her skydiving instructors simply love O'Shea and describe her as "an absolute joy to have in the drop zone."

Source: Pexels

Source: Pexels

She combined her skydiving this year with a worthy cause – raising awareness and funds for the Australian Motor Neurone Disease Association.

It's a cause close to O'Shea's heart as she lost her daughter to the condition a few years back.

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To remember her daughter, O'Shea jumped from 14,000 feet with her instructor and a paramedic; not that she needed it.

O'Shea looked adorable in a knitted sweater as she prepared to fall back down to Earth at 136 miles per hour.

All her loved ones, including her grandchildren and great-children, were waiting for O'Shea on the ground. The Skydiving school also confirmed:

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“Irene and Jed completed a smooth, beautiful freefall, falling at 220kph through wispy clouds, before a smooth parachute opening.”

In the two years that O'Shea has been skydiving, she's raised nearly $12,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

The Skydiving association also did their part by creating a GoFundMe page on O'Shea's behalf. They hope to raise $10,000 and have already received $2002 from 59 people in 18 days.

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When a reporter later asked if she's an adrenaline junkie, O'Shea replied:

“As far as I’m concerned I’m the same as everyone else, just a normal person. I lost my daughter to that terrible disease ten years ago, and I miss her."

She doesn't believe that she's an adrenaline junkie, just a person trying to get the most of life, and skydiving happens to be her passion.

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People who want to follow in O'Shea's footsteps but aren't as brave can perhaps start with base jumping instead of skydiving.

Where skydiving involves jumping out of a moving aircraft, base jumping is jumping from non-moving objects, such as a building, bridge, or cliff.

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