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The world\u2019s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guinness World Records (GWR) also released a statement confirming her death at the age of 117 years 168 days, making her the eighth-oldest person with a verifiable age in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaria passed away peacefully at the nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, where she resided for the past two decades,\u201d read the GWR statement, which added that she died on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, Morera\u2019s family published a post on her X account announcing her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe has gone the way she wanted: in her sleep, at peace, and without pain,\u201d reads the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her family added that Morera told them shortly before her death: \u201c\ufeffI don\u2019t know when, but very soon this long journey will come to an end. Death will find me worn down from having lived so much, but I want it to find me smiling, free, and satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morera was named the world\u2019s oldest living person by GWR in January 2023 after the death of French nun Sister Andr\u00e9 at the age of 118.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She told GWR that she had lived such a long life thanks to \u201corder, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think longevity is also about being lucky. Luck and good genetics,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CNN \u2014 The world\u2019s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media. Guinness World Records (GWR) also released a statement confirming her death at the age of 117 years 168 days, making her the eighth-oldest person with a verifiable age in history. \u201cMaria passed away peacefully at the nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, where she resided for the past two decades,\u201d read the GWR statement, which added that she died on Monday. On Tuesday, Morera\u2019s family published a post on her X account announcing her death. \u201cShe has gone the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41568,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41566\/revisions\/41568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}