Conjoined twins dies

This is a hard question. If both may die, it is good to try to save them, even if only one. How hard that must be to deal with. Can they tell now, with ultrasounds, if babies are conjoined before they are born, and if so, can they or will they do invitro surgery?

What else age you going to do? Let them stay as they are and have a hard if not terrible life, or let them both die? I'm just glad I never had to make the choice. My heart goes out to those that do.

It's not exactly killing the other conjoined twin. It's not fair to let two people grow joined, and when both of the children's lives are at risk, it is only fair to try to save one.

I think it's of no choice.. It's either one live, or both live in suffering and inconvenience.. MOst of the time, the decision lies in the parents and it's the hardest for them to make, because both are their children.. Also, if the twins are not seperated when they are still young, they will naturally create a bond between them.. SO when either one of them has to die, the other twin will be very upset too.. IN cases like this, it's very rare to see both twins staying alive.. even if they stay alive, their chances of living long is very small too..

That is very sad news but it happens in life sometimes. It is crazy how these things happen in the first place. What is even more unbelievable is the fact that some conjoined twins are alive and well today and are conducting there lives as much as humanly possible. Brave souls if you ask me. I don't know if it is necessarily right to kill one twin in order to save the other. I feel wrong to say yes and on the other hand it seems that it could give the other child a stab at life. I really hope for no one to have to make a decision like that and if they do I would not judge them for their decision.

Its a tough situation. I wouldn't be able to make a choice.

Speaking from a point that loves children I would say no..But thinking from another point what kind of normal life could they have conjoined? I might take that chance to separate if their was a chance for survival of both, but not if i knew right off that one would die because of the surgery and had no chance of survival.

i think both have the right to live a normal life.the doctors might have tried their best to seperate both of them but it might not have worked.i do not think,there is anything wrong in trying..

It is much debated topics. In some cases for the operation itself being risky, very few doctors take chance. in some cases they still take chance when they want to live separately. In our country also many try operations and many are just like that for years.

Depends on the situation. Every case of conjoined twins is different and needs to be evaluated separately. I wouldn't want to be the parent making the decision though, that's for sure.

I don't know what I would do if I was ever in that situation, I know I would want them to be separated if it could be done, but there is always that risk that something could go wrong, and in this case, it did. I don't know if its ok or not, but then it would be a hard life for them to live if they remained that way.

I don't think they were just trying ot save one, they wanted both of them to live from what I have been reading, it was just sad that the other baby was poorly

That is too bad. I am sure the parents were told what the chances would be before the operation. I suppose if they shared certain organs, it would be costly to one or the other twin. Sometimes those operations are successful, depending on what needs to be done. I remember recently where two sisters were separated, but each of them now have one leg. It really is a risky surgery.

I find this question to be unanswerable as I think you have to be in the situation to truly know what all goes into this procedure. I don't think that they meant to kill the conjoined twin they were trying to separate them for health reasons or other reasons. Be it what it may when you separate conjoined twins you aren't stabbing one in the heart or killing it intentionally so the other one lives. With conjoined twins I don't think the doctor says which one do you want to live. Or if we seperate them one will probably die. this is what happens. However the better question to ask is what happens when a mother is pregnant with quads and is told you must kill x amount of them to save x amount. When conjoined twins are separated parents are told that the chances of survival is this and that. Usually they say off the bat they could both die, both live or one could die. It's obvious to tell in most cases which one has the better survival rate but I dont' think they ask them chance of saving them both or having one die. It's risky to keep them alive together as is the same when you seperate them. Tis the sad reality that comes with conjoined anything.

It's never ok to kill anyone! But the risks of operations are often such that one can die. I don't believe that a mother or a doctor would choose to KILL a twin to save another. If the case was that BOTH definitely would die without the surgery, then the choice was to try to SAVE at least one of them not KILL one of them. Maybe is a matter of semantics here but I guess that's what I think.