Eric Strauch, a pediatric surgeon at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children, says simply, “They die.” Once the dead twins heart stops, he adds, the “blood stops pumping, the vessels dilate, and the conjoined twin will essentially bleed into the dead twin.

Do both conjoined twins go to jail?

The answer: No one knows. There have been a few recorded instances of conjoined criminality. By one account, the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker , were arrested over a scuffle with a doctor who tried to examine them, but never prosecuted.

Can one conjoined twin survive if the other dies?

Once the dead twins heart stops, blood stops pumping, the vessels dilate, and the conjoined twin will essentially bleed into the dead twin. If surgeons are there when the [first twin] dies, then its possible to do the surgery and save [the other].