María Branyas Morera, the woman who for a year was the oldest person in the world and the eighth oldest person in history, died in Spain at 117 years and 168 days. This was confirmed by the family itself.
María, whose remains were cremated this Tuesday, “went to sleep, that’s what she wanted and what we all want. ” This was said by Rosa Moret, María’s youngest daughter, 80 years old.
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The supercentenarian died around six in the morning on Monday at the residence of Santa María del Tura in Olot, where she had lived for about two decades. Soon after, on their X account, which is run by one of their sons-in-law and has more than 18,400 followers, they wrote this message:
“And when my voice is silent with death, my heart will continue to speak to you of love” (Tagore). I feel weak. The time is drawing near. Don’t cry, I don’t like tears. And above all, do not suffer for me. You already knew me, wherever I go I will be happy, because somehow I will always take you with me.”
To date, the message has almost 80 thousand views and more than a hundred messages of love.
Maria Branyas Morera
(San Francisco, 1907 – Olot, 2024)https://t.co/n8KXDPPatH pic.twitter.com/SD5umCoSOq— Wikipedia (@Wikipedia) August 20, 2024
According to the Association of Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which is responsible for determining which people are supercentenarians (who have reached the age of 110), through birth and marriage certificates, eleven people, all women, have been outlived María Branyas, , all dead.
The lifetime record is held by the French Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997, who lived only 122 years and 164 days; They are followed by the Japanese Kane Tanaka, who lived 119 years and 107 days; the American Sara Knauss, at 119 years and 97 days of life, and, at 118 years and 340 days, the French Lucile Randon as well.
The other seven who lived longer than María died at 117 years old, with more or less days.
María Branyas, who according to her daughter Rosa “has lived so long because she has no illness,” lived in 2020, at the age of 113, and became the oldest person in the world on January 17, 2023, when Lucile Randon died.
María knew she was the oldest person on the planet, “but she doesn’t care, she says she has no merit in that,” explained Rosa Moret, the youngest of the three children her, to EFE a few months ago. .
Rosa explained that since last summer, her mother had “fallen a lot,” although she made it clear that “she doesn’t hurt at all and doesn’t suffer from any illness,” age was just meaning that she was losing sight in recent years, hearing, and recently also memory.
María, who had not been able to walk on her own for a long time, spent most days sitting in an armchair in her room, where she received visits from her two daughters – died her son, who would now be 92, – and from others. a few relatives.
María, the daughter of a journalist from Pamplona who was responsible for the American magazine Mercurio and a publication from Barcelona, was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco (USA), where her father went to work after spending time in Mexico.
In 1914, after a trip through New Orleans and throwing the ashes of her father, who died on the boat trip back to Catalonia, off the Galician coast, María lived in several Catalan towns before going in, more than 20 years ago. , in the residence, where a friend and cousin of her husband was living at the time.
