Woman who has used iron lung for over 65 years recalls horrifying moment she was trapped in machine

Martha Lillard
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Martha Ann Lillard is an American polio survivor who, following Paul Alexander's death, became the last known person who still lives in an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was five years old.
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Woman who has used an iron lung for more than 65 years once got trapped and said ‘it’s like being buried alive’
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Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe
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