in case of conjoined twins,what if one dies accidently?how will the other survive?

Question

say , of them is run over by truck fatally and the other survives

(in my case they share only brain that is they are attached at head region only.so there is every possiblity of one of tnem being killed in some road accident

Answer 1

I just found a interesting article on it. Lenghty but a must read:


Siamese Twins, more properly known as Conjoined Twins, are a fascinating topic to me. I don't want to be one, or want to own one, and I find pictures of them interesting, but detailed descriptions of how they live their lives are what really interest me. What's it like to be attached to another person every minute of your life? To share colds, to get drunk if your twin has too much wine, to be your own person, with your own identity, while you're stuck to another person with their own agenda? How do you date, masturbate, have sex, go to the bathroom, pick your nose, fart, fit into a car or a normal chair, buy clothing, and all of the other minor inconveniences of life that we single-bodied organisms take for granted.

If you share a leg or an arm, who gets to control it? Do you both have control over it, but one of you is stronger with it? How do you decide who gets to do what on a given day, if you have different desires? The whole thing can't be much of a picnic, given how virtually all of them seem to choose to undergo very dangerous and frequently fatal surgery to try and get unhooked from each other.

As I said, the whole thing fascinates me. And with articles on conjoined twins appearing more and more often in the media (for no reason I can discern), there have been a lot of opportunities to write about them lately.



July 17, 2002

This is the hideous horror story photo of the day. At least that's my take on it, some people probably find it cute or fascinating or want to cry. I just think of the freakshow life ahead for the creature. Well, actually I find it fascinating, but I'd rather read about it afterwards, and pretend it was fiction. It's amazing to see animals with two heads, snakes and such, but a human? That's just very wrong, horror movie (or comedy, more likely) type stuff.

Imagine two boys like that? They can grow up and if they are large rent themselves out to costume parties as an ogre. Or do comedy routines and argue with each other, and hit each other in the head.

Thinking about it more seriously, imagine what life will be like? There isn't any news item about the kid(s) yet, how healthy they are, if there is really one body and 2 heads, how many legs and arms, if there are two spines all overlapping and causing problems, etc. Just imagine if the spines merge and the kid can walk, move normally, etc. I'm assuming it's really one body and two heads, and is functional.

What if one is a boy and the other a girl? Is that possible with one set of genitals?

Which head would be dominant? Would one have more control over the body than the other? Would they take turns? Would one eat more or less? Would they have different senses of taste and smell? Different likes and dislikes in TV shows (side by side TVs with headphones for each to watch a different show?) or books to read?

How would they be in school? Would they share a grade, or each have to take tests individually, with the same hands filling in the questions? How could a teacher know which one was doing what? One head could study English and the other Math, and they could help each other on tests. Can you imagine them blindfolding one head while the other one takes a test, to prevent cheating?

I would assume that conjoined twins very soon lose any sense of modesty or privacy around each other. I mean you're glued to a person for life, it's not like you're going to stress on them picking their nose, you have to sort of assist going to the bathroom, there's never any privacy from each other, except maybe if the other person is asleep. This applies more to more conventional Siamese twins, rather than this two-headed one in the picture above.

Another wonder is what happens when one dies. A quote from the linked page in the last paragraph.

On January 17, 1874, Eng was awakened in the middle of the night by a strange sensation. Looking towards his brother, Eng quickly realized that Chang had died. Eng called for his son William, who ran through the house shouting "Uncle Chang is dead!" Within hours, Eng was dead, too. Several weeks later, the bodies were brought to Philadelphia by a commission appointed by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. An autopsy was performed by Drs. Harrison Allen and William H. Pancoast at the Mütter Museum. It was determined that Chang had died of a cerebral clot. It was unclear, however, why Eng had died. Some physicians suggested that he died of fright. Today, it is thought that Eng bled to death, as the blood pooled in his dead brother's body.

Now that is goddamn freaky.

The sexual aspect of life is really weird to contemplate as well. Here's another quote from that page on two boys who each had both arms and were separate from the belly up, but had only two legs, penis, etc.

Because of the severe nature of their connection, the Tocci brothers never learned to walk without assistance. As in the case of some conjoined twins, each boy controlled only one leg, and they never were able to coordinate their movements. They were able to write (one was left-handed, the other right-handed) and each had artistic talents. After twenty difficult years touring, the twins retired to a secluded home near Venice, Italy. They married sisters and lived another forty-three years in seclusion.

I can't imagine how that would be. I mean they have the same penis, both of them have to feel it when it's aroused, but different wives. That's got to be some fascinating courtship and mating ritual there.

The famous Chang and Eng brothers are similar, though they only shared a fleshy band in their midsection and a liver. But when you are a foot from another guy's face, and you both have wives and end up with 21 children between you, you've obviously worked out some way of handling bedroom manners. Does one of the twins just pretend to not notice, or look away, or feign sleep while your brother's wife is lying naked on top of you, having sex with him? Hot three or four-ways galore?

One other quote from another page with short case studies.

Masha and Dasha are bound to each other permanently. They each have 2 arms, but they share 3 legs, two perfectly good ones and a vestigial third leg. They were born January 4, 1950 in Moscow. As a result of their degree of fusion, they share some internal organs, though not all. Their pelvic bones join and their spines meet at the coccyx. Their circulatory system is interconnected, though their nervous systems are not. Since their spinal cords do not connect, their senses of touch are totally distinct. They become ill separately and fall asleep separately. They each have their own stomach and separate upper intestines, which join to form a single lower intestine and rectum. They have four kidneys, one bladder and a single set of reproductive organs. There is no physiological reason why they could not bear children.

So they have basically one body from the pelvic bone down. They do not share control of the lower body, since it took them years to learn to walk, with each controlling one leg. But since they only have one crotch, who controls the bladder? Who feels sexual sensations?

I don't really want to interview or meet twins/a twin, but I would like to read some more of the nitty gritty info, beyond what the relatively superficial website articles I've seen in the last hour of searching has shown me.

Answer 2

Depending on what they are sharing inside determines if they can live separate lives.. and Im sure if under dr's care they would of taken x-rays to be able to determine that.

Twins feeling all the emotions of the other can create either heart attack or depression if the other twin passed.. Guilt shortly sinks in as well.. .. Why was I left behind.. alone feeling , I would assume you may run into poss split personality if that one twin wasnt quite ready to give up the other mentally.

Just as a husband and wife of twenty years would have a connection.. so would twins. So, heart aches of missing that person plays in that role as well.

Answer 3

I would imagine that, in an accident like that, both of them would end up dying. But, for the sake of the question, I'd say doctors would probably try to separate them to see if they could save the other twin. I'm no doctor, but that's what I'd say.

Answer 4

In case of conjoined twin,the first priority to do at once is pediatric surgery.Separate one from another even no signs of apnea for one.

Answer 5

The second one usually dies of a heart attack within a few hours trying to pump blood though more bloodvessels.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

if one dies, doctors will try to sepersate them. Normally they both dies anyhow.

Answer 8

since they share many organs when attached, the other would also die.

Answer 9

It would depend on if they could be seperated are not.

Answer 10

Both will probably die.