Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person, has died at the age of 117.

A woman classified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world died on Aug. 19 at the age of 117, her family confirmed to The New York Times.

According to Guinness World Records, Maria Branyas Morera died in Spain at the Residència Santa María del Tura nursing home in Olot, Catalonia, where she has lived since 2000.

Guinness World Records passed on the title of “oldest woman living” to Branyas Morera when Lucile Randon, a nun also known as Sister André, died in 2023 at the age of 118.

  • @Brkdncr
    26•4 months ago

    At two moments of time you are either the last person to be born or the last person to die.

    • @meco03211
      26•4 months ago

      Also, everyone is the youngest person alive at some point. Not everyone gets to be the oldest person alive.

      • @Bonesince1997
        2•4 months ago

        Those people get the Weekend at Bernie’s treatment.

      • @Pacattack57
        -8•4 months ago

        That’s actually not true. It’s basically semantics on when you consider a person born but technically a twin that remains in the womb while the other is birthed is always younger than their sibling. 🤓 ☝️

        • BlitzFitz English
          3•4 months ago

          Well… So the first one birthed is the youngest person alive for at least some fraction of a second, and when the other twin is born, they’ll also be youngest alive for a second.

          • @Pacattack57
            -1•4 months ago

            I would argue a baby in the womb 9 months is just as alive as a baby outside of it. Whether they are in the womb or not they are both alive.

              • @Pacattack57
                0•4 months ago

                Read the rest of the chain before you speak. We’re talking about twins and if the oldest twin can ever be considered younger then their sibling.

  • Flying Squid
    15•4 months ago

    Former world’s oldest person.

    I’m just saying…

  • t�mEnglish
    13•4 months ago

    So, she went through the Civil War and probably remembers a little bit of that… Wow.

    • @jordanlund
      17•4 months ago

      Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, so she would have been 32.

    • tiredofsametab
      7•4 months ago

      It was in the lead-up to WWII so it’s not that crazy since we have a handful of WWII vets alive today. Technically, one of my remaining grandparents is old enough to remember hearing about it, at least.

  • @dgmib
    8•4 months ago

    Amazing. I heard she also held the record for the youngest person alive at one time.

  • @samus12345English
    7•4 months ago

    Now the oldest person is Tomiko Itooka, who’s currently 116 years, 90 days old.

  • @ytsedude
    7•4 months ago

    What does “caress the Fairy” mean?!

  • @RememberTheApollo_
    2•4 months ago

    23 years in a nursing home? Damn…

    Edit: That would have cost multiple lifetimes retirement savings in the US.