World's shortest man dies in Nepal at 27

Khagendra Thapa Magar October 4, 1992 - January 17, 2020

My stature has always been 'above and beyond' ...

I'm somewhat taller and a lot broader than most others on the planet.

This is due to the fact that I was a victim of childhood obesity long before it became a national tragedy.

You might say that I brought it all on to the rest of you.

This situation has been a constant torment in my life. It's one with which I've come to grips in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:

• compliance with my prescription drugs,
• learning insights into general health,
• losing body fat as well as I can over the years, and of late,
• blowing $700 on a cavitation machine

The sum total of this is less girth, the same height, and a more 'normalized' stature in general.

Others have their own crosses to bear in the way of stature, genetics, and environment ... nature vs nurture.

The Nepali recognized by Guinness World Records as being the shortest man in the world passed yesterday due to complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Pokhara Nepal.

Khagendra Thapa Magar, a primordial dwarf, was 27 years old, measured 2 ft 2 in, and was a smoker.

It is said that he was a palm sized infant. His stature permitted travel around the world and television spots in Europe.

He charmed most everyone with whom he came into contact with his smiling and accommodating nature. Of late, he had been in and out of hospitals for pulmonary issues.

Personally, I've seen him pose in many photographs including one with the tallest man in the world.