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The oldest man in the world dies, which was the secret of the 117-year-old woman

2024-08-20 22:55:51Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The oldest man in the world dies, which was the secret of the 117-year-old woman
Maria Branyas Morera

The oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera from Spain, who was born in the US in 1907 and lived through two pandemics and two world wars, has died at the age of 117. "Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wanted: asleep, calm and without pain. We will always remember her for her advice and kindness," her family wrote on her X account on Tuesday.

Branyas, who had lived for the past two decades at the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the northeastern Spanish town of Olot, had written in an earlier post that she was feeling weak. "The time is near. Don't cry, I don't like tears. And above all, do not suffer for me. Wherever I go I will be happy", she says in the post on her account, which was managed by her family.

Guinness World Records had officially accepted Branya's status as the world's oldest person in January 2023 following the death, aged 118, of French nun Lucile Randon. The oldest person alive now is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old.

Branyas, who lived through the 1918 flu, the first and second world wars and the Spanish Civil War, was infected with Covid-19 in 2020, just weeks after her 113th birthday. She was confined to her room at home, but made a full recovery.

Her youngest daughter, Rosa Moret, once attributed her mother's longevity to genetics. "She never went to the hospital, she never broke any bones, she's fine, she's not in pain," Moret told regional Catalan television in 2023.

Branyas told the Guinness World Records website that she believed her longevity stemmed from "order, calmness, 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 is also about being lucky," said Branyas, who used a voice device to express herself in recent years.

She was born in San Francisco on March 4, 1907, shortly after her family moved to the US from Mexico. After spending time in Texas and New Orleans, the family returned to their native Spain in 1915 as World War I was underway, which complicated the trip across the Atlantic.

The voyage was marked by tragedy as her father died of tuberculosis and his coffin was thrown overboard. Branyas and her mother settled in Barcelona. In 1931, 5 years before the start of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, she married a doctor. The couple lived together for 4 decades until her husband died at the age of 72. They had three children – one of whom is deceased – 11 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

Manel Esteller, part of a team of researchers from the University of Barcelona who studied Branya's DNA to determine the causes of her longevity, told Spanish daily ABC in October 2023 that he was surprised by her good health.

"Her mind is completely clear. She remembers episodes from when she was just 4 years old with remarkable clarity and has no cardiovascular disease, which is common in the elderly. The only things she has are problems with movement and hearing. It's unbelievable," said the professor of genetics.

The oldest verified person to have ever lived was Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.


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