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Paul Alexander has been buried with the ashes of his long-time partner Kathy Gaines after a Dallas funeral where he was eulogised as fun-loving explorer

COCOONED in an iron lung for more than 70 years, Paul Alexander still enjoyed a life well lived.Known as Polio Paul and paralysed from the neck down,

Paul Alexander — known around the world as Polio Paul — died on Monday after reportedly catching Covid-19 but his iron lung was his 'cocoon' that kept him alive for 70 years

Paul Alexanders, dubbed Polio Paul, was just eight when polio ravaged his body and left him near death before a doctor saved his life by putting him in an iron lung

A LAWYER who lived in an iron lung for seven decades after being struck down with polio has died at the age of 78.Paul Alexander - widely known as Pol

Paul Alexander has spent over 70 defiant years in an iron lung after contracting polio in 1952, achieving remarkable feats despite complete paralysis and confinement

Crudely nicknamed 'Polio Paul,' Paul Alexander was crippled by polio at age six and spent the next seven decades living in an iron lung where he invented a new way to breathe - and got a dog as a reward

Paul Alexander contracted poliomyelitis when he was six years old, in 1952, but managed to study and become a practising lawyer and reach 76 years of age thanks to the iron lung in Dallas, Texas, US

A MAN has shocked doctors after surviving inside an iron lung for over seven decades.Paul Alexander, dubbed ‘polio Paul’, has lived inside the lun