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Tuesday, 26 August 2014
World's 'tallest man' dies at age 44
Leonid
Stadnyk is believed to be the world's tallest man at 8ft 4 inches has
died. He was just 44. The peasant farmer from the Ukrainian village of
Podoliantsy, died on Sunday August 24th from a brain haemorrhage after
health problems.
In
his last interview, Leonid, who wears a talked about how his height
was a curse, why he refused to be measured by the Guinness Book of World
Records and also why he refused to get married
"To
me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not something to
celebrate. What sin I have committed, I do not know. All my life I have
dreamed of being just like everyone else. I don't want or need the fame
that this would bring so I have no desire to be in this Guinness book.
"I never got married because I don't want to inflict my problems on a wife. I think it would not be fair on her" he said.
At one point, his condition, called giganticism, left him growing at the rate of roughly a foot every 3 years. His feet measured 18 inches in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter.
"I never got married because I don't want to inflict my problems on a wife. I think it would not be fair on her" he said.
At one point, his condition, called giganticism, left him growing at the rate of roughly a foot every 3 years. His feet measured 18 inches in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter.
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