Oh no, if you remove one of the heads you’ll cut it’s soul in half!!! Whaaa. Boo-hoo, I’d just do rock-paper-scissors on which one goes in the bucket and call it a day(or call it baby head in bucket.)
The third arm wasn’t functional.
not enough information to make an educated decision, if both heads are healthy and functioning properly there is no decision to make, if one head is just taking up space then yes operate
In the future don’t have unprotected sex with your sister.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Most conjoined twins are born into the third world or whose parents have no access to pre-natal care. Some parents may also be religious fundamentalists who believe every sperm is sacred and even a genetic “abomination” is precious to the Lord.
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Maybe I was a bit quick there. I was of course looking at it from a western perspective where the technology and money is not really an issue.
When it comes to religion being the deciding factor though, I stick with my opinion. It’s hard to imagine the kind of mental issues the child(ren) would get, nomatter how they are treated, and whether they are seperated or not.
[quote]bullddogg wrote:
not enough information to make an educated decision, if both heads are healthy and functioning properly there is no decision to make, if one head is just taking up space then yes operate [/quote]
What if they were Chinese and (someone correct me if I am wrong) the culture truly despises and shuns major deformations?
stuff like this is why I might adopt instead of having my own.
Well, I’m a parent and that must be one of the most awful experience to have to go through.
If we (the parents) found ourselves in that situation, I guess we’d listen to the doctors’ advice. Depending on the viability of the babies, my guess is that we’d go with the decision that preserves the most life. If both head can survive off of one body, I guess we’d keep both.
The article states that machines are currently making sure one of the head gets enough oxygen to survive. From that, I guess that the outcomes are either A) Remove the oxygen deprived head and have the remaining baby lead as normal a life as possible or B) Keep both heads alive using a machine, but they live their whole lives in a hospital room.
It’s probably a bit more complicated than that, with probabilities of complications and various other scenarios where one or both babies die; but given the choice between A) and B) above, I think I’d go with A. I think that having one of the babies lead a normal life outweighs 2 babies living a hospital room life. If both head can live outside of an hospital setting, I’d lean towards B).
Either way, it’s an atrocious choice for any parent to have to make.
[quote]Avoids Roids wrote:
In the future don’t have unprotected sex with your sister.[/quote]
Don’t have sex with your sister. Period.
Seriously though - if there were no complications I’d leave the kid as is.
Give it up for adoption…
I am the patrent of beautiful healthy intelligent children and I am thankful to God for that and express that each and every day of my life as a parent.
In all honesty I do not know what I would do and neither would anyone else unless you were palced in that situation. Be thankful that you have not been.
I feel that contemplating and joking about what you would do in such a situation is in a way inviting that circumstance into your life…again, be thankful you are not the parent. Some things are best left up to the Creator to resolve.
My heart and my prayers go out to those parents.
Masterblaster
[quote]masterblaster wrote:
I feel that contemplating and joking about what you would do in such a situation is in a way inviting that circumstance into your life.[/quote]
Well, I wasn’t joking about this situation and I don’t personally agree that even contemplating the issue is inviting it upon your “house” like an omen. I think when issues like this publicly arise, they give an opportunity to discuss the values or standards that people have and how firm those values truly are when held up against tragedies or unforeseen events.
To simply say “I don’t know how I would respond and even talking about it is bad” seems a little like sticking your head in the sand. If you saw a person with two heads, would you turn away so as not to “contemplate” it?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
masterblaster wrote:
I feel that contemplating and joking about what you would do in such a situation is in a way inviting that circumstance into your life.
Well, I wasn’t joking about this situation and I don’t personally agree that even contemplating the issue is inviting it upon your “house” like an omen. I think when issues like this publicly arise, they give an opportunity to discuss the values or standards that people have and how firm those values truly are when held up against tragedies or unforeseen events.
To simply say “I don’t know how I would respond and even talking about it is bad” seems a little like sticking your head in the sand. If you saw a person with two heads, would you turn away so as not to “contemplate” it?[/quote]
I would most certainly contemplate that and my contemplation would tell me first that I am fortunate not to be the parent and secondly that I would not know what to do if I were. You really do think you or anyone else would know exactly what to do huh…wow.
MB
cutting one head off would be murder.
[quote]masterblaster wrote:
I would most certainly contemplate that and my contemplation would tell me first that I am fortunate not to be the parent and secondly that I would not know what to do if I were. You really do think you or anyone else would know exactly what to do huh…wow.
MB[/quote]
Where did I write that? Nice try at putting words in my mouth. I now dare you to find that implication in writing.
This does lead me to ask why, if the goal is to avoid discussion of it, you have chosen to respond at all.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
bullddogg wrote:
not enough information to make an educated decision, if both heads are healthy and functioning properly there is no decision to make, if one head is just taking up space then yes operate
What if they were Chinese and (someone correct me if I am wrong) the culture truly despises and shuns major deformations?[/quote]
So do the Greeks. They keep their deformed children in pseudo concentrain camps because they wont be able to marry into a wealthy family if they have any!
Jeez, I thought the Greeks always used the back door. Another myth shot to hell!
I’m not weirded out so easily. Think of the inherent advantages:
Twice the brain power for the same resources.
Never being lonely.
Two college educations for the price of one.
Singing in two-part harmonies.
Increased work productivity since one head could work while the other sleeps.
Don’t even get me started on the oral sex! (OK, went too far.)
This could conceivably be the wave of the future considering possible genetic advancements. Alright now Mr. & Mrs. Future Parent… How many heads will it be?
Don’t forget that all us men have two heads and we wouldn’t think of cutting either one off.
I can’t imagine both heads would be fully functional. If they have the same set of internal organs, what would happen if one held it’s breath? I would rather have one semi-normal child than one with two heads that needed a breathing machine. Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the brain control most, if not all of the internal organs? It seems like there would be so many conflicts.
Once they get a little older they can have a payperview special in which the two head fight to the death over posession of the body. The proceed would then pay to clean up the aftermath.
In all seriousness, I’m quite happy that the technology exists these days to detect these problems early. I only hope it gets better and cheaper over the next view years so fewer people have these sorts of problems.