Branyas, a vivacious resident of the Spanish area of Catalonia, lived by means of two world wars and quite a few occasions of historic significance.
Maria Branyas, the world’s oldest residing particular person, has died in a Spanish nursing house on the age of 117. She lived by means of two world wars and quite a few occasions of historic significance.
A spokesperson for the nursing house and its official social media account stated Tuesday that Branyas had died in her sleep.
The Guinness E-book of Information declared her the oldest residing particular person in January 2023.
“María Branyas has left us. She died as she needed: in her sleep, in peace and with out ache,” introduced her social media account, managed by her daughter. In her bio on X, previously generally known as Twitter, one can learn: “I’m previous, very previous, however I’m not an fool.”
Branyas had assumed he was on the finish of his life earlier this week, declaring in a social media submit that “I really feel weak. The time is coming. Do not cry, I do not like tears… You already know me, wherever I’m going, I will be comfortable.”
The month of August handed away on the Fada, pondering that I would not see it anymore. She needed to be a mom and I believed she would not reside that lengthy. However right here is one other one collectively. It is comforting to caress her pores and skin with my very own grievances and bills. She, with tots 👇 picture.twitter.com/L5OafzuXGm
— Súper Àvia Catalana (@MariaBranyas112) March 31, 2024
Born in San Francisco, California, on March 4, 1907, Branyas moved along with her household to the Spanish area of Catalonia when she was seven years previous.
He spent the remainder of his life there, residing by means of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the nation’s bloody civil conflict from 1936 to 1939, each world wars and the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Branyas attributed her lengthy life to “order, tranquility, good connections with household and buddies, contact with nature, emotional stability, not having worries, not having regrets, a whole lot of positivity and staying away from poisonous individuals.”
When she turned 117, Guinness recognized Branyas because the twelfth oldest verified particular person in recorded historical past. The oldest particular person was a French lady named Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days previous.
“Sooner or later, I don’t know, however it’s very shut, this lengthy journey will finish,” Branyas stated just a few days in the past, in keeping with her account. “Demise will discover me exhausted from having lived so lengthy, however I would like it to seek out me smiling, free and glad.”
