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Rome (AFP) - Emma Morano, an Italian woman believed to have been the oldest person alive and the last survivor of the 19th century, died Saturday at the age of 117, Italian media reported.
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| Emma Morano, then 16, is seen in Verbania, North Italy, on May 14, 2016 (AFP Photo/OLIVIER MORIN) |
Rome (AFP) - Emma Morano, an Italian woman believed to have been the oldest person alive and the last survivor of the 19th century, died Saturday at the age of 117, Italian media reported.
Morano,
born on November 29 1899, died at her home in Verbania, in northern Italy, the
reports said.
"She
had an extraordinary life, and we will always remember her strength to move
forward in life," said Silvia Marchionini, the mayor of Verbania, a small
village of some 2,000 residents.
According
to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), Morano ceded the crown of the
world's oldest human being to Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10,
1900.
Morano's
death, at the age of 117 years and 137 days, means there is no one living known
to have been born before 1900.
Her first
love died in World War I, but she married later and left her violent husband
just before the Second World War and shortly after the death in infancy of her
only son. That was 30 years before divorce became legal in Italy.
She had
clung to her independence, only taking on a full-time carer a couple of years
ago, though she had not left her small two-room apartment for 20 years.
She had
been bed-bound during her latter years.
In an
interview with AFP last year, she put her longevity down to her diet.
"I eat
two eggs a day, and that's it. And cookies. But I do not eat much because I
have no teeth," she said in her home at the time, where the Guinness World
Records certificate declaring her to be the oldest person alive held pride of
place on a marble-topped chest of drawers.
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Emma
Morano, then 116, poses for an AFP photographer in Verbania,
North Italy, on
May 14, 2016 (AFP Photo/OLIVIER MORIN)
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'Age at a
slower rate'
She also
refused to be taken to hospital, with the exception of a cataract operation.
Her
Eyesight did become very poor and she latterly spent much of her days sleeping.
But she
kept her sense of humour till the end.
"How
does my hair look," she asked before blowing out the candles on her 117th
birthday cake last year.
"What
impresses me most is her memory. She forgets nothing," Yamile Vergara, her
nurse for over 40 years, said at the time.
"Her
sense of humour is her therapy".
The eldest
of eight children, Morano outlived all of her younger siblings.
Robert
Young, director of the Los Angeles-based GRG's Supercentenarian Research and
Database Division, said he had been following Morano 's progress for the past
seven years, calling her an example of "super-ageing individuals who seem
to age at a slower rate than normal -- maybe even a few percentage points
slower, but enough to make a difference".
The world
longevity record, he noted, remained with French woman Jeanne Calment, who died
at 122 in 1997, having outlived both her daughter and grandson. "That's
superconfirmed," Young said.
Emma Morano
goes into the record books as the fifth longest life ever verified.
In 1900,
when Violet Brown was born, Jamaica was part of the British West Indies, so her
records are from the British government, in Queen Victoria's time.
"Unless
a surprise candidate comes out of the trees, she is the oldest living
Victorian," said Young.
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