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Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. He self ...
Joe Middleton looks at the life of Paul Alexander, who spent 70 years in an iron lung before passing away at 78 ... “He loved good food, wine, women, long conversations, and laughing. ...
The polio survivor spent more than 70 years being kept alive by the medical device.
Paul Alexander, of Dallas, Texas, was paralysed by polio in 1952 and spent the rest of his life living in an iron lung ... flat and about a foot long with a pen attached, which he used to write ...
The 100 species with longest life-spans recorded and verified [1] This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum life spans. For a given species, such a designation may include:
She entered the iron lung on 5 April 1949, and remained dependent on the machine for the rest of her life. [1] Middleton spent up to 21 hours a day in the iron lung to help her breathe. [ 5 ] Her husband-to-be stayed with her for five years before eventually marrying another woman and starting a family.
The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952.
Guinness World Records from its inception in 1955, began maintaining a list of the verified oldest people. [5] It developed into a list of all supercentenarians whose lifespan had been verified by at least three documents, in a standardized process, according to the norms of modern longevity research.