Here's an absolutely amazing story about Abigail and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins:
Despite sharing a body, the twins have different tastes in food and clothes. Some of their clothes are altered so that they have two separate necklines in order to emphasize their individuality. According to a TLC documentary (discussed later) in 2006, they negotiate what they will wear each day. They will usually have separate meals, but sometimes will share a single meal for the sake of convenience (e.g. each takes a bite of a hamburger). [...]
They appeared in a follow-up documentary on The Learning Channel on December 17, 2006 filmed around the time of their 16th birthday, in which they discuss dealing with puberty and getting their driver's licenses.
They successfully passed their driver license exam, both the written and driving tests. They had to take the tests twice, once for each twin. Both control the steering wheel, Abby controls the pedals and gear stick, and Brittany controls the turn signal.
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Perceive: Your right or my right? There's a Mel Brooks sketch in here somewhere...
Speaking of dying - seems like they could live a long long time with double of the most vital organs. Two hearts? Awesome.
2. Sam asked what happens when one dies? Generally there has to be a really quick operation to separate them, or the other will shortly die as well. That was the case with Chang and Eng. Chang died first and Eng followed several hours later. For what it is worth, Chang and Eng probably could have been (relatively) easily separated today, much more so than these girls.
They each have their own esophagus and stomach. The only organs they really share are below the stomach.
Most people have TWO lungs, and many people who have lost a lung talk just fine. So they each have one lung and share the third. what's so hard to imagine?
If you watch the documentary it is much easier to see that they obviously are two people in one body. It is a lot better than most peoples imagination of it.
I think the danger in one of them dying is that it would be difficult for the body to deal with so much tissue death all at once. You'd have to have emergency surgery or the living body will be poisoned to death by the necrotic tissue.
I'm really happy to see these girls doing even so much better than many other children their age. I'm sure they will be successful in life through their own efforts.
Intimate relationships, wedding, having babies, etc...
Have they a boyfriend for each one?
If they have sex, who would feel the pleasure?
Having sex with 'em is considered as a threesome?
I call shenanigans on you. It wouldn't be "perverted and immoral" to have 2 husbands. They are 2 SEPARATE people! They have 2 separate minds. Each thinks for her own.
Perverted and immoral in the J.C. way? Sure. What isn't though?
I mean think about it, you could have 2 girls, 1 guy kind of stuff if you married them both. That'd be great. Fill both their mouths up and then make them both simultaneously cum.
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I think the best thing as far as marriage would be if they could find 1 guy to marry both. I'm sure if they appealed for special legal permission for a polygamous marriage it would be granted. To my knowledge, they are more conjoined than any other twins that have made it to adulthood, and I don't know if having 2 spouses would work as well as it has for other conjoined twins.
Also, since their reproductive organs are shared, do they each have 1 ovary each, or genetically do the ovaries belong to just 1 girl, or are they genetically blended? If they had 2 separate husbands, you wouldn't know who's sperm would mix with who's egg and could have 4 sets of 1/2 siblings.
Marriage is a tricky question because their female parts are shared. But if they choose to have 1 husband, I think that's fine. If they have 2 husbands, I think that's great as well. Whatever works in their lives. But obviously, they're identical twins and have the same DNA so they don't have to worry about whose egg it belongs to.
No, it would be stupid to separate these girls. You're basically taking two fine ladies by killing 1 and making the other one a vegetable.
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How 'bout, since they have enough things to figure out on their own, we leave them to do it...and NOT pass judgements based on our own personal beliefs - moral or otherwise!
I'm pretty sure dating and marriage are difficult enough for "normal" teens, without having a bunch of internet nosebags passing judgements.
Go Twins! You guys rock, truly!
I know "normal" people that can't walk and chew gum...YOU GO GIRLS!
This sounds really cruel too, but Im just being honest - one of the girls appears as if she could have a normal life, if the other werent there - her head is straight on, while the other's isnt. Sadly, this must have crossed her mind. Also, I know they dont want to exist as freaks to be experimented on - but what we could learn from them, in science, medicine, psychology...they can give so much to our understanding of these studies.
I'd want to be the first one to die under those circumstances as they aren't like the Asian men who if anyone had had half a brain they could have simply tied off the extended flesh between them and then severed it and the other would have survived. But instead he laid there in mortal terror and knew he would die. Best thing would have been to give him a fast acting poison without his knowledge. I can't imagine what these young women think when they consider things like that. I do hope they get to go to the UK like they want.
If they want one or two husbands more power to them. But what if one doesn't want kids and the other does? Can't force one to have a kid. Maybe they have already made these decisions.
Life is grand isn't it?
and i do have some questions
what if one of them stops breathing.that wont kill her coz of one shared lung. kewl.
what if one heart starts beating faster i mean if one of them is doing something which makes heart beat faster then what about the other one? will it go along the first one?
Who made you Lord and Master as to who should Live and Die?
Who was it that said, 2 Heads are better than One?
Humans did.
These two girls are absolutely Amazing.
They've beaten ALL of the odds that were and are against them.
Every parent should have kids as wonderful as these two are.
I suppose if you were in their condition you would Commit Suicide?
Each girl runs half of the body, that's quite Amazing, if you think about it.
Do this, Go get a friend, have her use her Left hand and you use your Right and try Tieing your shoe.
The way i see it, you would rather of had them Killed off at Birth or if you are Religious, had them stuck in some Asylum behind closed doors away from view.
Cus that's what Religion did to those who were born different.
How do you know that they weren't born Normal and you are the one who is Different.
To those saying that they should've taken and whacked Brittanys head off so that Abby could've had a more normal life, there are two reasons that that couldn't and thankfully shouldn't have been done.
Remember this, each girl controls her side of their body.
So 1, it would have Killed Brittany and 2, it would have left Abby Paralized on her left side.
There's a reason why, GOD in his Infinate Wisdom-If he exists- created them the way he did. The 2 girls obviously Believe in him and they've excepted his mold. Or Nature just said it's time for some Normal people to populate this Pathetic planet.
These are 2 Beautiful young women, who have More going on in their lives than any 10 people.
What they do or whoever they do it with is Their business and no-one elses.
I bet you, Crystal, think that you're GODs gift.
Guess again.
To Abigale and Brittany
Live your lives as you want to and don't let other people bring you down. Most people who Criticize others, usually don't have a life of their own.
Way to go on the DMV Test.
Vic
This situation challenges several legal and moral ideas. I personally would not judge these girls for whatever choice they make, because it is up to them to figure out how to get what they want out of life.
I don't know whether to see this situation as a miracle from God, or simply proves that God actually like a kid with an ant farm, that God doesn't control everything, He just created world, and everything interacts by coincidence...
If God control everything in detail, how could He let this kind of thing happens? Really I just don't know what's the truth...
As for the girls, you both amazing... Have a long happy life...