World's Oldest Person Dies At 118 Years
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The world’s oldest person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118.
Ms Randon – who assumed the name Sister André when she became a
nun in 1944 – died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, France.
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Born in 1904 in southern France, she lived through two world wars and
dedicated much of her life to Catholicism.
Born when Tour de
France had only been staged once, Sister André also saw 27 French heads of
state.
A spokesman from her nursing home, David Tavella, shared
news of her death with reporters.
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“There is great sadness but… it was her desire to join her beloved
brother. For her, it’s a liberation,” Mr Tavella said.
Sister
André was said to have a close relationship with her brothers. She once told
reporters one of her fondest memories was their safe return from fighting at
the end of World War One.
“It was rare,” she recalled. “In
families there were usually two dead rather than two alive”.
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Despite being blind and reliant on a wheelchair, Sister André cared for
other elderly people – some of whom were much younger than herself.
In an interview last April with the AFP news agency, Sister André
said: “People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I kept working
until I was 108.”
During the same interview, she said she would be
better off in heaven, but continued to enjoy earthly pleasures like eating
chocolate and drinking a glass of wine every day.
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She had been Europe’s eldest for some time, but she entered the Guinness
Book of Records last April as the world’s oldest person following the death of
Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lived until she was 119 years old.
It was not her first time in the record books. In 2021 she became
the oldest person to recover from Covid-19.
Sister André was born
into a Protestant family, but later converted to Catholicism, before being
baptized when she was 26 years old.
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Driven by her desire to “go further”, she joined an order of nuns known
as the Daughters of Charity about 15 years after her decision to join the
Catholic Church.
She was assigned to a hospital in Vichy, where
she spent most of her working life, about 31 years.
In one of her
last interviews, she told reporters: “People should help each other and love
each other instead of hating. If we shared all that, things would be a lot
better.”
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