The family of Maria Branyas Morera, recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person, on Tuesday announced her passing at the age of 117.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the supercentenarian who died in her sleep, lived through two world wars and Spain’s civil war.
Morera’s family in a social media post, said that she died peacefully in her sleep, without pain, as she wished.
The family added that she will be remembered for her advice and kindness.
“Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her family wrote via Maria’s account on social network X.
Branyas, who had lived for the past two decades in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the town of Olot in north-eastern Spain, had said in a post 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 said in the post on her account, which is run by her family.
Guinness World Records had officially acknowledged Branyas’s status as the world’s oldest person in January 2023 after the death, aged 118, of the French nun Lucile Randon.
The oldest living person now is Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who was born on 23 May 1908 and is 116, according to the US Gerontology Research Group.