Guinness World Records (GWR) also released a statement confirming her death at 117 years and 168 days, making her the eighth oldest person with a verifiable age in history.
“Mrs Maria passed away peacefully at her nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, where she had lived for the past two decades,” the GWR statement said, adding that she died on Monday.
Maria Branyas Morera was born in the US but lived most of her life in Spain. Photo: Guinness
On Tuesday, Ms. Morera’s family posted a post on her X account announcing her death. “She passed away the way she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” the post read.
Her family added that Ms Morera told them shortly before she died: “I don’t know when, but very soon, this long journey will end. Death will find me exhausted from having lived so long, but I want it to find me smiling, free and content.”
Ms Morera was recognised as the world's oldest living person by GWR in January 2023 after French nun Sister André died at the age of 118.
She told GWR that she has lived so long thanks to “order, quiet, good relationships with family and friends, closeness to nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, always positive and staying away from toxic people”.
“I think longevity also depends on luck. Luck and good genetics,” she added.
A photo of Maria Branyas Morera as a young woman. Photo: Supercentenaria/Twitter
She was born on March 4, 1907, less than four years after the Wright brothers made the first powered flight and two years before the ill-fated Titanic was laid down.
Morera was born a year after her parents immigrated to the United States from Spain. Eight years later, her family moved back home, to Barcelona during World War I.
She spent the last decades of her life in a nursing home in Catalonia, where, despite her advanced age, Morera used the social network X — with a little help from her daughter — to communicate with her thousands of followers.
Ms Morera is believed to be one of the oldest people to have recovered from COVID-19 in May 2020.
According to the Gerontology Research Group, a nonprofit scientific organization that certifies the ages of people who are at least 110 years old, after Morera's death, the oldest person alive today is a Japanese woman named Tomiko Itooka, who is 116 years old.
The title of the longest-lived person ever recorded in history belongs to Jeanne Louise Calment, born February 21, 1875, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old, according to Guinness World Records.
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