When Martha Mason read of the death this week of 61-year-old Dianne Odell due to a power outage that caused her iron lung to stop working, she
said she found it "appalling."
Mary Dalton talks with Martha Mason in her Lattimore home. Dalton produced a 2005 documentary on Mason's life inside an iron lung.
(Mary Dalton)"It was sad news," Mason said. "When I read that article, I thought, it's so sad that something like that could happen."
Most anyone hearing the news might agree. But for Mason, Odell's death carried special significance.
Lady lives her entire life in an Iron Lung and dies due to a power outage. Somethin about this says god pulled the plug on this one. I mean 60 years
in an Iron Lung?
I wasnt certain they actually used iron lungs anymore. Wow to have to live your entire life within your own head? Never leaving or moving having to
depend on a machine to keep you alive?
how come the hospital didn't have a generator?
