The oldest person in the world has died at 117 years old. In their saddest last words, they said goodbye to everyone.
A Spanish grandmother named Maria Branyas Morera died “peacefully and without pain.” She had lived through two world wars and two pandemics.
Her family told everyone on X that she had died, saying, “Maria Branyas has left us.” It was her wish to die in her sleep, without pain or stress.
“We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness.”
Maria loved social media and would post things on X once a week for her 16,000 followers.
The elderly woman said in her sad last message on Tuesday that she felt “weak” and that “time is near.”
“The time is near,” the post said. I don’t like tears, so don’t cry. Most importantly, don’t go through pain for me.
“Wherever I go, I will be happy.”
Louise Randon, a French nun, died in January of last year at the age of 118, making Maria the world’s oldest living person.
The old woman said she was so old because she lived in “order” and “tranquility” and never hung out with “toxic people.”
Maria was born in San Francisco in 1907, during a deadly wave of the bubonic plague in the city.
When she stayed in Spain during both world wars, she also had to deal with the Spanish flu pandemic and the Spanish Civil War.
Brave Maria also lived through Covid-19, even though she got it just a few weeks after turning 113.
She got better quickly after being in the hospital and was back to her normal life in a nursing home within a few days.
She married a Catalan doctor named Joan Moret in 1931, and the two of them had three children.
Maria’s husband died in 1976, but she lived longer than their only son August, who died in a terrible tractor accident when he was 86.
Along with her daughters, 11 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren, she died in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the northeast of Spain.
Before she got too old to play, Maria played the piano from the time she was a child until she was 108 years old.
She worked out every morning until she reached 105 to stay healthy.
Researchers wanted to learn more about how to live a long life, so Maria agreed to be tested scientifically before she died.
They have taken samples of Maria’s saliva, blood, and urine and will compare them with those of her daughter, who is 80 years old.
Scientists hope that studying Maria’s genes will help them make medicines that can fight diseases that come with getting older.
She is now the oldest person still alive. Her name is Tomika Itooka, and she was born in Japan on May 23, 1908.
It comes after the sad death of the world’s oldest man in April.
Two months before his 115th birthday, Juan Vicente Perez Mora “met with God” and went to heaven.
He was loved by 11 children, 41 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
It is said that Juan’s secret to never getting old was drinking aguardiente, a Spanish liquor, every day.
In history, Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman, was the oldest person ever. She lived 122 years and 164 days.
She is still the only person who has lived past her 120th birthday.