Conjoined Twins

aka "siamese twins". they freak me the fuck out. i can watch ANYTHING on tv-operations, murder scenes-but these kids make me
i'm a horrible person.

synnove!!! even the ones that are joined at the HEAD????!!!!

Like these?

ugh. what got me thinking about this was this new pair in egypt:

here is an illustartion of what their insides look like:

ALIENS ANYONE?????

Twin Falls anyone?

Aww, they're cute... but how on earth are they going to walk or do anything that doesn't involve them being on their back/stomach?
Was there a news article that went along with this picture?

I read an excellent short story a few years back about a male escort who ended up haivng sex with a pair of women who shared one body, each with their own head. It was an interesting look at how people perceive each other.

it was an article about how they are separating them.

[Edited on Oct 12, 2003 by pr0ject605]

Heh the one in the chair cut a Country album.The cover shot was her with the other one, the one that can stand, covered by a horse's head

Oohh, brainstorm.

there is a pair of twins in Minnesota that almost look like the ones in Geek love. They share legs and lower torso, then each have their own upper torso and arm. There was a article in Life about them maybe 5 or 6 years ago.

why are you such a witch ?
there was no need for a statement like that, can you even imagine what the parents of these children are going through ? i doubt it !
they dont make me sick, actually it breaks my heart but you on the other hand make me livid and extremely sick. why dont you keep you're arsehole comments to yourself in the future.

why are you such a witch ?
there was no need for a statement like that, can you even imagine what ava is feeling when she posts this statement? Have you thought that perhaps she just wants to see other people's opinion on the matter? maybe to change her opinion?

you make me livid and sick. why dont you keep you're arsehole comments to yourself in the future....good advice! you couldn't email ava and say hey, i think that was out of line.

though indeed i have to say i'm being hypocritical posting this, but i have the utmost respect for ava and can't stand to see her bashed on these boards.

i dont care if she said she was the anti -christ, i still think it was totally unnecessary.

What I want to know is: do hospitals with new surgical techniques to try out have people employed searching 3rd-world countries for conjoined twins to try them out on?

First Iran and now Egypt gets the West's glamourous saviour-surgeons riding in for a high-publicity, essentially one-off operation. Whether the patients live or die, the hospital gets global attention as a pioneering & cutting-edge temple of medicine. CAnt' buy that sort of press.

Meanwhile, back in the village folk get on with dying quietly of measles and diahorrea.

That's what's sick.

I'm oddly fascinated by the whole idea ...

Have you heard about the conjoined twin girls that share a pair of legs but are spilit at the torso and have two independent heads? They've got a strange coordination between the sides of their body, and it's not clear who's controlling what limb sometimes. So weird.