Very sad indeed.

I can't personally imagine living my entire life joined with another human being, even my sibling. Heck, maybe I should say, especially my sibling. I honestly think I would rather be dead than live that way.


I’ve seen a show on Discovery channel where there are two 10 or so year old girls who are conjoined the same way. They are so active! They swim, ride a bike, and play softball. They pretty much do everything that other kids do.
That's amazing. And very sad. IMO, as ten year old kids, life can be tolerable, even fun, in a situation like that. But as those kids get older, I think it is going to be so, so much worse. As teenagers, as adults. For the next 80 or so years. So sad.




The girls' parents, Fort Wayne teen-agers, directed doctors not to provide aggressive care, said Dr. Robert Jansen, a neonatologist who was there for the birth.
I have to say I'm very impressed with the maturity of that choice. Many parents ten or twenty years older than these teenagers might not make such a wise choice. IMO, a lot of the super-aggressive treatment, meant to save preemies at any cost, is for the parents own conscience, without concern for the babies themselves. Some of these babies, after spending millions of dollars to save them, live lives as little more than vegetables, at best. At keast these parents have the sense enough to let them go when they should.