Paul Alexander, who lived in an iron lung, dies

A paralyzed Texas man who spent seven decades using iron lung died at the age of 78.

Paul Alexander breathed his last on March 11, said his brother Philip in a statement on Facebook.

However, Philip did not make public other details immediately, reports The Washington Post.

Philip Alexander wrote in a post on Tuesday that Paul Alexander touched and inspired millions of people and that is no exaggeration.

When Paul Alexander, a native of Dallas, was six years old in 1952, he contracted polio, polio, a deadly disease that once paralyzed tens of thousands of children every year, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

Doctors in his hometown of Dallas operated on him when he became ill, saving his life.

As Paul was nearly fully paralyzed and close to death, unable to breathe on his own, A doctor performed an emergency tracheotomy to suction congestion from the boy’s lungs and was placed in full-body meal cylinder.

 Alexander had more than 300,000 followers, according to a spokesperson on TikTok.

Paul Alexander graduated from high school and later joined Southern Methodist University.

The man gained a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. He practiced as a lawyer for decades after being admitted to the bar two years later.

 Paul Alexander achieved Guinness World Records as he lived the longest in an iron lung.