2 Headed Baby! - Page 3

Happy lil Elf · 2004-02-06, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Ait'al

It said the seconds heads partly developed mouth moves when the other is being breastfead suggestin brain activity in the second head. That would legally make it alive under current definitions of life right? so They should be having to consider if its alive. And what if it is and would grow up with the girl and have its own persanality if it remained. Should htey just remove it without considering this? If you say it parasitic, its alive and needing anything is parasitic(its the same needs as the twin thats not being removed) and there the same fetis so techinically the body's both theres.

I'm not an expert on laws in the Dominican Republic by any means but it really wouldn't suprise me if they aren't legally obligated to keep it alive.

This also brings something to light, and is a great example of how ive always felt, does the presents or lack of brain activity differentiate life form death(or in this case even the begining of life since we put so much emphasis on it in death), as this is a prime example of the more dificult part of the argument, and more suttle, of which most people arent capable or dont consider normally in there veiws, as it brings out a possibility normaly to hard to consider.
(as you may see where im getting with brain activity being just as important sign of life in the womb. If we currently do not consider this currently with the begining of life but put all emphasis in it at the end, then we have a disruption of any equalibrium we may have thought we had in our veiws of life and death and need to take this into some real considerations.)

It's going to take someone smarter than anyone on these boards to answer that one and you're getting dangerously close to starting an abortion debate. That would be bad. Why, you ask? Well because you usually have a better chance of jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet with no parachute and surviving than you do of having a decent debate on abortion.

Triggar · 2004-02-06, 12:33 PM

Yeah, the abortion debate is a tricky one, but you do make a lot of good points.

Having said that, if I found out that I was pregnant with a kid with two heads, I might not necessarily have an abortion per se, but I'd throw myself down a few flights of stairs. I'd probably deserve it for having pissed God off so much that he made me pregnant with it in the first place.

Now I'm not saying that that baby has any less right to live than a normally formed one, all I'm saying is that if I birthed a kid with two heads, I would freak out so hard you'd have to have me institutionalized. But that's just me.

Thrik · 2004-02-07, 10:49 AM

It died, by the way.

Link.

UncleDynamite · 2004-02-07, 11:36 AM

Yeah, the chances of the baby surviving wasn't that great in the first place. I feel sorry for the parents: having to cope with such a crazy deformation and then having their baby die.

Octavian · 2004-02-07, 03:27 PM

Personally after hearing the second head was just a parasite, I would be pleased they both died. The whole part of it moving when the first baby is being fed freaks me out.

SDM · 2004-02-07, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Thrik

It died, by the way.

Link.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-07, 06:59 PM

As for the second head, assuming the poor kid lived, it'd depend how formed it is. In the picture it looked really jacked up. There are worse things than being dead, being something like what that second head is is probably one of them.

Corrosion · 2004-02-07, 07:02 PM

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-07, 07:05 PM

Not saying I like it, I'm saying that given the choice between a miserable life like what the other head would have had and being dead, I'd rather be dead.

Octavian · 2004-02-07, 07:13 PM

I think, if the second head had a bit more time to form, then it'd may even have ended up with the ability to think simple thoughts. Which would be pretty freaky.