The world’s oldest living person, Spanish Maria Branyas Morera has sadly passed away aged 117 years old.
Morera lived an extraordinary life, living through the 1918 flu, World War I, World War II and Spain’s civil war aswell as the recent Covid-19 pandemic, which she contracted and successfully beat.
On Morera’s Twitter account, her family wrote “Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” and “We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness,”
Morera had warned her thousands of followers that she felt “weak” adding “The time is near. Don’t cry, I don’t like tears. And above all, don’t suffer for me. Wherever I go, I will be happy,”
According to Maria Branyas Morera’s daughter, the key to her longevity was just genetics stating that the 117-year old never went to hospital and never broke any bones.
According to the US Gerontology Research Group as of right now the new oldest current living person is 116-year old Tomiko Itooka who was born on May 23, 1908 in Japan.
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