“Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her family wrote on her account on social network X.”We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness,” they said.
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Born in the United States, Branyas lived through two world wars and spent the last two decades in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in Olot, northeastern Spain. Just hours before her passing, Branyas had expressed feeling “weak” in a social media post.
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“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,” she added to the account which is run by her family.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Branyas was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person in January 2023, following the death of French nun Lucile Randon at age 118. With Branyas’s passing, the title of the world’s oldest living person now goes to Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908, and is currently 116 years old, according to the US Gerontology Research Group.
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