MADRID
\nMaria Branyas, who was the world\u2019s oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117, according to her account on the X platform and a spokesperson at the home on Tuesday.
\n\u201cMaria Branyas has left us. She has died as she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,\u201d her official X account said, and a spokesperson at the nursing home confirmed the news without providing details.
\nBranyas had suggested that her demise was imminent on Monday on X, saying: \u201cI feel weak. The time is coming. Don\u2019t cry, I don\u2019t like tears\u2026 You know me, wherever I go, I will be happy.\u201d
\nHer X account is handled by her daughter.
\nShe had turned 117 on March 4, according to Guinness World Records, and had become the oldest person in the world in January 2023.
\nBorn in San Francisco, California, in 1907, she moved with her Spanish family back to the northeastern region of Catalonia when she was seven.
\nShe spent the rest of her life there, living through the 1936-39 civil war and two pandemics a century apart \u2014 the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic.
\nIn 1931, she married Catalan doctor Joan Moret, with whom she had three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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