“At 117, the Remarkable Life of Maria Branyas Morera: Secrets of the World’s Oldest Person Revealed After Her Passing”
She had spent the past two decades in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the town of Olot, Girona, north-eastern Spain.
“Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her family wrote on her account on X, which is run by her son-in-law, on Tuesday (August 20).
“We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness.”
Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, the oldest known person in the world, has died at the age of 117
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Branyas had said that she felt weak in the months before her death. “The time is near. Don’t cry. I don’t like tears. And above all, don’t suffer for me. Wherever I go, I will be happy. Death will find me worn out from having lived so long, but I want it to find me smiling, free, and satisfied.”
According to the US Gerontology Research Group, the oldest person in the world is now Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908, and is 116.
Guinness World Records named Branyas as the world’s oldest living person in January 2023 after the death of the French nun Lucile Randon, who passed away aged 118.
Branyas was born in San Francisco in 1907 and later moved to her family’s native Spain
Maria Branyas Morera is the supercentenarian who, at the age of 117 years, 73 days, became the world’s oldest verified living person since the death of Lucile Randon (1904–2023).
There are some of her photos across two centuries.pic.twitter.com/R0ty3B5oEG
