The world ’s oldest confirmed living person has go in her sleep aged 118 years and 340 sidereal day .
Lucille Randon was a Roman Catholic nun buoy who take the name Sister André in 1944 . According toGuinness World Records , Randon was both the second - oldest French person and European someone ever recorded , take away the title of world ’s oldest living person after the dying of previous record holder Kane Tanaka in 2022 .
Randon reached the lofty position of asupercentenarian , mean she lived over 110 years – a milestoneless than one in 1,000 centenariansreach . accord toone studyof Italian residents maturate 105 or former , chances of survival tableland around the age of 105 , with 110 - year - olds have the same projected spirit expectancy charge per unit . However , it has been suggestedthat some supercentenarians are younger than they claim , with their seemingly old age ascribe to tricksy record - guardianship .
Randon also survived COVID-19 at the age of 116,telling reportersthat “ I was n’t scared , because I was n’t frightened to die , ” and that " [ I ] did n’t even realise I had it . "
Upon becoming the world ’s oldest person , CBS word reportsthat she say " People say that oeuvre putting to death , for me work kept me alive , I kept working until I was 108 . "
In fact , a recent studyin rural China propose that she could have been onto something , shew a linkbetween early retirement and cognitive decline .
On the other mitt , Sister André hasalso been quotedas saying : " Only the good Lord knows " when asked about how she managed to avert demise for so long .
“ I run to chit-chat her regularly and I appreciate her manhood , her spirituality but also her sense of humor and the relevancy with which she felt our sentence , ” Hubert Falco , Mayor of Toulon , wrote on Facebook . “ She had a straight talk , a veridical spontaneity for a person born in 1904 . She had acquire with the times , she was unbelievably innovative and told me candidly what she thought of this Modern C . ”
" multitude should help each other and love each other instead of hat . If we share all that , things would be a lot well , " Randon say , accord to CBS .
