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Can conjoined people survive if one dies and the other?

Can conjoined babies survive if one dies and the other? Conjoined twins are a kind of abnormal twins. About one in 200000 babies will be conjoined, mostly girls. The reason of conjoined baby is that the embryo can not be separated completely when it develops in the mother. One third of conjoined babies die within 24 hours of birth.

If you are lucky enough to not die, there are only two outcomes: one is never separation; the other is that if you have separation surgery, only one of them can live. If it's a rare parasitic two headed conjoined baby (dicephalic paratagus) - that is, two heads share one body, it will never be able to undergo separation surgery, because both may die.

Even if it is not parasitic double head, the success rate of conjoined infant separation operation is only 38%. This means that more than 60% of conjoined babies who have been separated will die. This kind of death may be one of them or both. Therefore, there is an ethical question in medicine about the separation of conjoined baby: is it appropriate to kill one person to save another?

Below are the Mexican conjoined babies, rubita and Carmen. After the two sisters were born, their mother took them everywhere to do the separation operation, but because they were parasitic two headed conjoined babies with too many common organs, the death rate of the separation operation was very high, and finally their mother could not but send them to the physical therapy center, so that they could learn how to cooperate and dominate a body.

Here is a pair of parasitic two headed conjoined brothers named Sohna and mohna from India. They were abandoned after birth and grew up in orphanages, but they were lucky enough to live a normal life and go to school like other children.

The staff of the orphanage said that although they share the same body, they are two completely different people. Even if they wear shoes and socks in the morning, the two brothers also wear their own. If they are called back to wash their hands and feet while they are playing, Sohna will leave after washing his feet. We have to get mohna back to wash his own feet. '

However, many conjoined babies are not as lucky as they are.

In the 19th and early 20th century, when medicine was still underdeveloped, the fate of conjoined babies was very tragic. Most of them were abandoned as "freaks", "curses", or sold to the circus as property by their parents and families, or taken as research objects by doctors or scientists, or forced to undergo separation surgery, which was very simple in that era and usually ended in death.

Here is a pair of conjoined sisters named violet and Daisy, who were born in 1908 and sold to circus exhibitions and performances.

Below are Russian conjoined babies Martha and Tasha. After they were born, they were regarded as the objects of human experiments by scientists and suffered a lot. Until the scandal of human experiments was exposed in 1964, their sisters were finally transferred to a children's boarding school. In 1968 doctors cut off their extra leg to make them look more like 'normal people'!

Well, that's all. Here comes the dry goods--

If one of them dies, can the other survive?

The answer is not to live.

If one of the conjoined people dies and the other cannot be divided by surgery, they will die together. Because the metabolic mechanism of conjoined human is interlinked, half of the organism will not die, and the other half is still alive.

The same is true of the Siamese Siamese Siamese Siamese bond brothers, en and ang, who were born in 1811. The brothers married a pair of sisters and had 21 children. In 1874, ang first died, and then a few hours later, en also died.

When they were alive, ang was seriously ill. En worried all day that he could not live alone after ang died. In the end, Eun's nightmare came true - he really couldn't live alone, because separation surgery was immature in that era.

According to the results of medical examination, Daisy and violet, the British conjoined sisters mentioned above, died about two to four days after violet died.

So are Russian conjoined sisters Martha and Tasha. In 2003, at the age of 53, Martha died of a heart attack. Her sister, Dasha, refused to undergo separation surgery. Finally, Dasha's body was poisoned by the toxins decomposed in Martha's body after her death. She also walked with Martha 17 hours later.

Many times, the conjoiner, especially the conjoined sister, is the one they love most. If one of them dies, the other will choose not to do separation surgery and die with her.