Moral Dilemma - If you were the parents of conjoined twins and had to make the following decision..?

Leave them together.,

I grew up around a set of conjoined twins - they're joined at the head. I went to school with them, see them at the mall, etc. They couldn't be separated because they'd probably lose them both. However, even though they have their challenges, they're doing pretty darn well. The smaller one is a singer, and the taller one is more of a homebody (she sits quietly behind her sister when the other one is singing at a gig). They've been in relationships, have their own lives......by everything I could ever see, they're doing pretty well.

(Although when they used to fight with each other, it was something....neither could get away from the other!!)

http://www.twinsarefun.com/2009/09/lori-and-reba-s...

Would need more medical facts. I'm leaning toward saving one.

This is partly a response to a show I saw on conjoined adult brothers. The doctor mentioned the fact that one brother would probably die before the other, meaning that the surviving brother would need to spend hours or days heavily sedated, waiting to die while still joined to his dead brother.

But it would boil down to the medical specifics, the doctors' advice, and lots of prayer & counsel with our pastor & other people whose input my spouse & I value.

it is unquestionably a pickle of a situation. you're understandably detest to eliminate the stable guy - he merits a place there and particularly, we would desire to continuously not bypass judgment on what God has seen fit to do. the only functional answer is to have the guy wait interior the parlor and ply the impolite twin with 'bourbon previous fashioneds' till he's snoozing soundly. he will then be not something better than a verbal substitute piece and, probably, a place to take a seat back a tray of tipples on.

I'd need to know exactly what sort of issues the twins would suffer if they remained conjoined. I'm not going to rush into separating them.

If one has a chance to live a normal healthy life then I'd go with that. Quality of life is not overruled by quantity of life. If neither can live a normal healthy life even separate... then leave them together.

No dilemma. I'd have them separated.

I'd rather have one happy, healthy child that can live his or her life out normally, then two miserable sick children who have no chance at ever finding a place in society, and if I had to chance death for myself to accomplish the same thing, I wouldn't hesitate to do that either.

Very hypothetical, with not much medical facts there. Few doctors will separate twins if one is sure to die. All those hospital ethics and malpractice boards.

Surgery.I would be sorry,but it's better for 1 person to die rather than 2 suffering for their whole lives.

That's not a moral dilemma; it's an ethical one. Ethics involve selecting the best, or least undesirable, choice out of more than one.

Kill one of them and let one of them having a normal life.