MADRID: Maria Branyas, the world's oldest person, died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home aged 117, according to her account on platform X and a nursing home spokesperson on Tuesday.
“María Branyas has left us. She died as she wanted: in her sleep, in peace and without pain,” her official account on X said, and a spokesperson for the nursing home confirmed the news without giving further details.
Branyas had hinted that his death was imminent on Monday's X, saying: “I feel weak. The time is coming. Don't cry, I don't like tears… You know me, wherever I go, I'll be happy.”
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She turned 117 on March 4, according to Guinness World Records, and became the world's oldest person in January 2023.
He was born in San Francisco, California, in 1907, and when he was seven years old he moved with his Spanish family to the northeastern region of Catalonia.
He spent the rest of his life there, living through the civil war of 1936-39 and two pandemics a century apart: the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021.
In 1931 she married the Catalan doctor Joan Moret, with whom she had three children.
Her husband died in 1976 and she also survived her son, August, who died in a tractor accident at the age of 86, Guinness World Records said on its website.
Branyas allowed scientists to study her exceptional longevity, which she attributed to luck, good genetics and “order, tranquility, good connections with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people,” according to Guinness.
When she turned 117, Branyas became the 12th oldest verified person in history. The oldest person was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old.
