María Branyas, the oldest in the world, died at the age of 117

2024-08-20 15:44:48

María Branyas, the oldest person in the world and the oldest octave in history, died at dawn on Monday at the age of 117 years and 168 days. It was the object of scientific study by the researcher Manel Esteller.

María Branyas received in the residence of Olot (Girona), where she lived, al entonces president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Pere Aragonés, in April 2023, when she was 116 years old. EFE/ Jordi Bedmar

María Branyas died at six o’clock in the morning on Monday in the residence Santa María del Tura de Olot (Girona), where she had been living for a couple of decades, and shortly thereafter in her account of X, who had one of her sons and que counta con más de 18,400 seguidores, escribieron este mensaje:

“Y cuando mi voz calle con la muerte, mi corazón te seguirá hablando de amor” (Tagore). Me siento débil. It’s about time. No lloréis, no me gustan las lágrimas. Y sobre todo no sufráis por me. Ya me conocías, allí donde vaya seré feliz, pues de alguna manera os llevaré siempre conmigo”.

“Se apagó durmiendo, que era lo que ella quería y lo que queremos todos”, ha affirmado Rosa Moret, de 80 años, la menor de los three hijos de María.

María Branyas, daughter of a journalist from Pamplona who was responsible for the American magazine Mercurio and a Barcelona publication, was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco (USA), where her father had gone to work after spending a season in México.

In 1914, tras un periplo por Nueva Orleans y lanzar ante las costas galegas las zinizas de su father, deceased en el voyage en boat que les llevaba de regreso a Cataluña, María lived in Barcelona, ​​Girona, Calonge i Santa Antoni y Palol de Revardit antes de ingresare, hace más de 20 años, en la residence, de Olot.

María Branyas, object of interest for science

The supercentenary contributed to the study of aging and associated diseases in research led by Manel Esteller, eminencia en el campo de la genetica y director del Instituto de Investigación contra la Leukemia Josep Carreras.

“When we saw that we were close to the house of the oldest old woman in the world, we thought we could study her and learn from the exception”, explained the researcher to EFE in October 2023.

El top de las personas longevas

According to the Asociación Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which is in charge of verifying which people are supercentenarians, es decir, that han fulfilled los 110 años, mediate los certificados de cimiento y de matrimonio, once people, all women, han vido more than María Branyas, todas fallecidas.

The longevity record was held by the French woman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997, who lived exactly 122 years and 164 days; le siguen la japonesa Kane Tanaka, que vivió 119 años y 107 días; the North American Sara Knauss, with 119 years and 97 days of life, and, with 118 years and 340 days, the French Lucile Randon.

The other seven lived longer than María, todas murieron a los 117 años, with more or less days.

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