According to the British "Daily Mail" local time on April 12, the world's oldest conjoined twins Lori Schappell (Lori Schappell) and George Schappell (George Schappell) died in a hospital in Pennsylvania, USA, last Sunday, at the age of 62. Lori and George were both girls at birth until 2007, when George announced that he had become a man. The two have made headlines in the media of various countries many times in their lives, and they have lived a rich life.
As conjoined twins with their heads connected, according to the imagination of ordinary people, their lives are destined to have all kinds of inconveniences, all kinds of pain, and all kinds of factors that make people "depressed" all the time, but judging from the photos of Lori and George, they have a sunny inner world and the real world.
Of the two, Lori is the healthier one, and George has spina bifida and is confined to a wheelchair, pushed by his twin Lori.
Although the two are destined to be connected at all times, they have an independent life.
George is a successful country singer, but Lori loves sports and is an award-winning ten-pin bowler.
According to Guinness World Records, in the 1990s, Lowry had been planning his schedule around George's performances, which were not limited to the United States but also traveled as far away as Germany and Japan, including several years in the laundry room of a hospital.
(Lowry & George in Infancy)
George was also a girl at birth and used to use the name Reba. In 2007, George announced that he had become a man and changed his name to George, which allowed him and Lori to be identified as the world's first "same-sex conjoined twins of different sexes".
George and Lori are independent in their lives, living in a two-bedroom apartment in Pennsylvania, USA, where they alternate sleeping in their own rooms, with showers drawn in the middle as a barrier and showers separately.
他们出现在许多有名的节目中，包括杰瑞·斯普林格 (Jerry Springer)秀、莫里·波维奇秀 (The Maury Povich Show) 及霍华德·斯特恩广播秀 (The Howard Stern Radio Show)。
Sometimes, they are confronted with cruel questions.
For example, when asked if the death of one of the conjoined twins meant that the other would die too, Lowry replied that it was not the case and that it was a misconception, George said, "If we find it early enough, we can be taken to the hospital, and in an emergency, we can be quickly separated to save the other." ”
Someone also asked if they had ever wanted to be separated from each other, and George said, no, "Why fix something that's not broken?" Lowry said, adding that just because we couldn't get up and leave each other, that didn't mean we couldn't keep in touch with them or be lonely, "Siamese people can have very private lives." ”
Lowry said she hopes to eventually have a family, a husband and children.
Earlier, 23-year-old conjoined twins Carmen Andrade and Lupita Andrade detailed what would happen if one of them died, the sisters, who shared all the organs and limbs from the waist down, were born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States with their parents when they were 2 years old.
Carmen explained that she shared the blood flow with her sisters, so if one person died, the other would eventually develop sepsis and die within hours or days.
But she added, "We're not dead, so why do you keep asking us that question?"
Just last month, Abby Hensel, a 34-year-old American conjoined twin sister with Brittany Hensel, revealed that she had married Josh Bowling, a male nurse, at the age of 31.
SOURCE: DAILYMAIL