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It's perhaps a bit morbid/crass to ask, but as they've both since passed (rest in peace), I wonder how in fact the death of the conjoined twin resulted/impacted
by ninininino 2y ago
It's perhaps a bit morbid/crass to ask, but as they've both since passed (rest in peace), I wonder how in fact the death of the conjoined twin resulted/impacted the other twin biologically and how long one was able to live with the other passed?
- spondylosaurus 2y agoFrom other cases I'm aware of it sounds like the living twin tends to follow suit not long after. Chang and Eng Bunker died on the same day, and that was several centuries ago, but I can't imagine modern medicine has done much to change things. Plus, I'm not normally one for woo, but witnessing the death of your conjoined twin seems like a situation where you might truly die of fright (or a broken heart). Just awful to think about.
- skissane 2y agoTheir circulation is connected, the dead twin is going to give the live twin septicaemia. If a person has a gangrenous limb, we can amputate it. But what to do if the whole of your conjoined twin is gangrenous? Usually the cases of twins still conjoined in adulthood are cases where separation was not medically feasible, so “amputation” is not an option. Given this, they can live for a few hours, but once one twin is dead, death for the other becomes imminent and inevitable.