Park, Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas, on February 25, 1984, next to his older brother, David Joseph Vetter III. Legacy A Conroe ISD elementary school which opened in 1990 in The Woodlands in unincorporated Montgomery County, Texas, was named David Elementary after Vetter. The Paul Simon song "The Boy in the Bubble" was inspired by Vetter's story. Aftermath Vetter's parents later divorced. His father became the mayor of Shenandoah, Texas. His mother married Kent Demaret, a magazine reporter who had written about her son. Vetter's psychologist, Mary Murphy, wrote a book about Vetter's case that was to be published in 1995; however, its initial publication was blocked by his parents and Baylor College of Medicine. The book was published in 2019 under the title Bursting the Bubble: The Tortured Life and Untimely Death of David Vetter. See also Ted DeVita The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, a 1976 TV movie drama inspired by Vetter and DeVita starring John Travolta Bubble Boy, 2001 comedy film inspired by the life of David Vetter References External links Lecture on the medical ethics of Vetter's case by historian James H. Jones 1971 births 1984 deaths People from Conroe, Texas American people with disabilities American children Burials in Texas Deaths from cancer in Texas Deaths from non-Hodgkin lymphoma Medical controversies in the United States People from Montgomery County, Texas Catholics from Texas Child deaths