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Martha Mason defied many odds in her life — not least of which was living in an iron lung longer than anyone else in the world. Unfortunately, Mason died Monday at the age of 71 after living most of her life in an 800-pound airtight tube that breathed for her. She contracted polio at the age of 11 in 1948 and was paralyzed from the neck down. She didn’t, however, let her physical limitations restrain her in any way. She graduated first in her class at Gardner-Webb College and at Wake Forest, where she was a member of an honor society. She wrote papers in her head and then had her mother write them down to hand in. She also got a voice-activated computer and used it to produce her 2003 memoir, Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung, and recently set up a Facebook account to stay in touch with people. She loved to talk about politics, gardening and any number of topics with her visitors. “I’m what goes on inside my head,” she said in an interview in 2003, reports The Winston-Salem Jo
Martha Mason Iron Lung Survivor Passes Away On Monday After Her 61 Years Of Life In A Machine. Polio could not prevent Martha Mason from graduating at the top of her college class and from writing an autobiography. Martha Mason became a record setter for being able to live for almost 61 years in an iron lung. A close friend of hers informed that the lady had passed away at her home in North Carolina. Mary Dalton, an associate communications professor at Wake Forest University, informed about Mason’s death on Monday. Mason was to reach her 72nd birthday within a month. Dalton was the one who produced a documentary in 2005, throwing some light on Mason’s life. The polio epidemic of 1948 also affected Mason and was paralyzed from the neck down. She was only eleven years of age then. With her disability, she did her schooling from her home and did her graduation from Wake Forest in Winston-Salem in 1960. English was her subject. Mason was well-versed in politics and literature But she foun
