French nun Lucile Randon, the world’s oldest person, passed away at the age of 118.
At the nursing home where she resided, Randon passed away on Tuesday while sleeping. When she became a nun in 1944, she adopted the name Sister Andre.
There is a lot of sadness, but she wanted to go with her dear brother. According to David Tavella, spokesman for the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home in the southern French town of Toulon, “For her, it’s a liberty.”
According to the World Supercentenarian Rankings List published by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), Randon, who was born on February 11th, 1904, is the oldest living person.
She had previously been acknowledged as the world’s oldest individual, but after Japan’s Kane Tanaka passed away at the age of 119 last year, she surpassed him. In April 2022, Guinness World Records formally recognized her accomplishment.
In the year when New York City’s first subway line opened, Randon was born, and World War I was still ten years away.
She was raised in a Protestant household in the southern French town of Ales as the lone female among three males.
She told AFP in an interview on her 116th birthday that the return of two of her brothers at the end of the war in 1918 was one of her favorite recollections.
“It was uncommon for households to have two dead people instead of two living people. Both of them returned, she said.
Randon served as a governess in Paris for the children of affluent families, a time she once referred to as the happiest of her life.
At the age of 26, she embraced Catholicism and underwent baptism.
She joined the Daughters of Charity order of nuns when she was 41 because she wanted to “go deeper.”
The following assignment for Sister Andre was a hospital in Vichy, France, where she served for 31 years.
Later in life, she relocated to the Mediterranean city of Toulon.
Prayer, meals, and visits from other residents and hospice staff served as the highlights of her days in the nursing home.
Additionally, she consistently got letters, to virtually all of which she replied.
She overcame a case of COVID-19 in 2021.
Last year, Randon told reporters that her profession and helping others had kept her in good health.
In April of last year, she told reporters in the home’s tearoom, “People say that work kills, but for me it kept me alive. I kept working until I was 108.
She once took care of old individuals who were considerably younger than she was, despite the fact that she was blind and used a wheelchair.
Instead of disliking one another, people ought to support and care for one another. Things would be much better if we revealed all of it, she remarked during the same discussion with media.
According to longevity specialist Laurent Toussaint, Marie-Rose Tessier, a woman from Vendee, who is 112 years old, is most likely the new oldest person in France.
Toussaint cautioned, though, that it was always possible that an even older person had not yet come forward.
The oldest confirmed human age is 122, according to Jeanne Calment, who passed away in 1997 in Arles, southern France.
