Death
Maria de Jesus died on 2 January 2009. The cause of death was reported as septic shock. Her death left 114-year-old American Gertrude Baines as the oldest living person.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys—as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)