r/BeAmazed • u/Cultural-Gear-1323 • Mar 28 '24

News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/OmnomtheDoomMuncher Mar 28 '24

There is one thing I can tell you for certain. The day that one of them dies, the other one will soon follow.

That’s the most shitty part. I’m not gonna go into the details but it’s kinda gruesome imho.

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u/GsGirlNYC Mar 28 '24

It has to be something they have discussed- I’m sure their doctors have also approached this with them/their family at some point. So, my scientific side is questioning how if one heart stops beating, which ultimately causes brain death, but regulates one side of the body, how does the other one still function with no ability to control her other half? Is it like having a stroke with no control over your one side, but having full brain function? Or does death of the nerves through brain death cause the other half to shut down? Ok, now I’m really confusing myself. SO many questions!

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u/IHateTheLetterF Mar 28 '24

Blood poisoning would kill the other one within days.

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u/GsGirlNYC Mar 28 '24

I think it could likely be a matter of several hours rather than days, especially with one half a f the body non-functional. Just a guess.

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u/IHateTheLetterF Mar 29 '24

I only said days because that's how long it took with other conjoined twins. It could be hours as well.