According to the Guinness Book, the oldest person in the world, Spanish María Branyas, has died at the age of 117. “She died as she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her family said Tuesday in the online service X.
The family had previously published a farewell message on behalf of the 117-year-old: “The time is near. Don’t cry, I don’t like tears. And most importantly, don’t suffer because of me. Wherever I go, I will be happy.”
Branyas had been listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person in the world for over a year and a half. She was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco, USA, and the family moved to Spain in 1915. The great-grandmother had lived in a retirement home in Olot, in northeastern Spain, for about twenty years.
In In this post you can see a photo from María Branyas’ childhood:
The Spaniard also survived the corona infection
Branyas’ daughter attributed her mother’s longevity to good genes in an interview last year. “She was never in hospital and she never broke a bone,” she said on Spanish television. At the age of 113, Branyas safely survived a coronavirus infection.
With Branyas’ death, American gerontologists say 116-year-old Japanese woman Tomiko Itoooka is now the world’s oldest living person.
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