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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why was someone still living in an iron lung for that long? Was there really no way to build this person a portable assisted breathing contraption so he/she could have a life? Seems unnecessarily cruel in this day and age.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

He was able to move about without it via “frog breathing,” but needed the iron lung to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Read in an article that he chose to keep using it as he was so used to it