{"id":1688,"date":"2024-04-23T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/lori-and-george-schappell-long-surviving-conjoined-twins-die-at-62\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:37:07","slug":"lori-and-george-schappell-long-surviving-conjoined-twins-die-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/lori-and-george-schappell-long-surviving-conjoined-twins-die-at-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori and George Schappell, Long-Surviving Conjoined Twins, Die at 62"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partly fused but who managed to lead independent lives, died on April 7 in Philadelphia. They were 62.<\/p>\n

Their death, at a hospital, was announced by a funeral home<\/a>, which did not cite a cause.<\/p>\n

Dr. Christopher Moir,<\/a> a professor of surgery at the Mayo Clinic, who has been on teams that separated six sets of conjoined twins \u2014 although none of them were joined at the head \u2014 said that when one of the Schappells died, the other would have almost certainly followed quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cConjoined twins share circulation,\u201d he said, \u201cso unless you somehow emergently divide their connection, it\u2019s absolutely a fatal, nonviable process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Schappells lived much longer than had been expected when they were born as craniopagus twins, joined at the head, which is rare. They were cited as the second-oldest conjoined twins ever<\/a> by Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n