Supercentenarian Maria Branyas Morera lived a remarkably long life of 117 years, which she attributes to positivity and strong human connections.
Maria Branyas Morera died in a Catalonia nursing home, where she had lived for 24 years.US-born Spanish woman Maria Branyas Morera has died at the age of 117, a year after being confirmed as the oldest person alive.
Ms Branyas held the Guinness World Records titles for the world's oldest woman and oldest person overall since January last year, when she was 115 years old. In 1931, she married Joan Moret, a doctor with whom she worked to treat the wounded during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. And then came six more years of World War II.
"Life is not eternal for anyone … At my age, a new year is a gift, a humble celebration, a new adventure, a beautiful journey, a moment of happiness. Let's enjoy life together," Ms Branyas wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in January last year.Loading Twitter content
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