World's oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies in Spain aged 117
Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States, was the world's oldest living person upon the death of the French nun Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, who died in 2023 aged 118. "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," Branyas said Monday on an X account run by her family.
The world's oldest person, Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, died Tuesday at the age of 117, her family said.
Guinness World Records had officially acknowledged Branyas's status as the world's oldest person in January 2023 following the death of French nun Lucile Randon aged 118.
"Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain," her family wrote on her account on social network X. "We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness."
Branyas, who had lived for the last two decades in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the town of Olot in the northeastern region of Catalonia, had warned in a post on Monday that she felt "weak".
"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," she added on the account which is run by her family.
"She has never gone to the hospital, she has never broken any bones, she is fine, she has no pain," Moret told regional Catalan television in 2023.
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