The world’s longest-lived elderly woman died
The world’s longest-lived elderly woman, Maria Branyas Morera, died at the age of 117, her family announced on social networks.
Guinness World Records also issued a statement confirming the death of the world’s longest-lived elderly woman, at the age of 117 years and 168 days, making her the eighth person to reach the oldest verified age in history.
“Maria passed away peacefully at the nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, where she had resided for two decades,” read the Guinness World Records statement, which added that she died on Monday.
On Tuesday, Morera’s family published a post on their X account announcing the death of the world’s longest-lived elderly woman
“She has gone as she wanted: sleeping, in peace and without pain,” the post read.
Her family added that Morera told them shortly before her death, “I don’t know when, but very soon this long journey will come to an end. Death will find me exhausted from having lived so much, but I want it to find me smiling, free and satisfied.”
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The world’s longest-living elderly woman had been given the title by the record book in January 2023, following the death of French nun André at the age of 118.
She told Guinness World Records that she had lived such a long life thanks to “order, tranquility, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people.”
“I think longevity also has to do with luck. Luck and good genetics,” he added.
He was born on March 4, 1907, less than four years after the Wright brothers launched the first powered flight and two years before construction began on the ill-fated Titanic.
Morera was born a year after his parents emigrated from Spain to the United States. Eight years later, the family moved again, arriving in Barcelona during the First World War. Morera’s life also spanned the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
He spent the last decades of his life in a nursing home in Catalonia, where, despite his advanced age, Morera used X – with a little help from his daughter – to communicate with his thousands of followers.
Morera is believed to be one of the oldest people to have recovered from covid-19, after testing positive for the virus in May 2020.
