"Never been to hospital"
Oldest person in the world dies at the age of 117
The world's oldest person according to the Guinness Book of Records, the Spanish woman María Branyas, has died at the age of 117. "She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain," her family announced on the online service X on Tuesday.
The family had previously published a farewell message on behalf of the 117-year-old: "The time is near. Don't cry, I don't like tears. And above all, don't suffer because of me. Wherever I go, I will be happy."
Branyas had been listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person in the world for more than a year and a half. She was born in San Francisco in the USA on March 4, 1907, and the family moved to Spain in 1915. Her great-grandmother had been living in a retirement home in Olot in north-eastern Spain for around 20 years.
In this article you can see a picture from María Branyas' youth:
Spanish woman also survived corona infection
Branyas' daughter attributed her mother's longevity to good genes in an interview last year. "She was never in hospital, she never broke a bone," she said on Spanish television. At the age of 113, Branyas survived a coronavirus infection in good health.
According to US gerontologists, Branyas' death means that 116-year-old Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka is now the oldest living person in the world.
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