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The world’s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media.

She was the eighth-oldest individual in history with a verifiable age when she passed away at the age of 117 years, 168 days, according to a statement made by Guinness World Records (GWR).

According to the GWR statement, Maria died on Monday and went to rest quietly at the nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, where she had lived for the previous 20 years.

Morera passed away on Tuesday, and her family announced it via a message on her X account. The message states,

“She has gone the way she wanted: in her sleep, at peace, and without pain.”

It was just before Morera passed away, her relatives said, that she informed them, 

I don’t know when, but very soon this long journey will come to an end.” I want to die smiling, free, and content, but I also want to die worn out from having lived so much.

After French nun Sister André passed away in January 2023 at the age of 118, Morera was declared the oldest living person in the world by GWR.

She told GWR that “order, tranquility, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity, and staying away from toxic people” were the reasons she had lived such a long life.

Her birth took place on March 4, 1907, two years before the unfortunate Titanic’s construction had even started, and less than four years after the Wright Brothers’ historic maiden powered flight.

A year after her parents’ departure from Spain for the United States, Morera was born. The family returned eight years later and arrived in Barcelona during the First World War. In addition, Morera lived through both World War II and the Spanish Civil War.