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Around the world, hearts were broken when news came that the conjoined Bijani twins had died on the operating table. Having lived in tortured unity for 29 years, they traveled from their native Iran to Singapore for the surgery meant to set them free. The doctors who performed it were devastated. When you lose a patient, particularly when the patient dies at your own hand, the heartbreak mixes with unbearable guilt. The doctors are asking themselves the same question everyone else is asking: Should they have done...
DIED. LADAN and LALEH BIJANI, 29, conjoined twins from Iran who underwent risky surgery, never before performed on adults, in their determination to be separated; after more than 50 hours on the operating table; in Singapore. The twins, who studied law at Tehran University and said they were willing to take a chance on the operation rather than go on fused together, died from loss of blood after doctors separated their brains...
...DIED. LADAN AND LALEH BIJANI, 29, spirited, Iranian conjoined twins whose final wish was to see each other face-to-face; during an operation to separate their fused brains; in Singapore. After two days of surgery, the courageous sisters were sundered but died of blood loss within 90 minutes of each other. Some doctors questioned the wisdom of the surgery, but the sisters insisted upon taking the chance to lead individual lives. (The twins were lawyers, but Laleh?the less outgoing of the two?wanted to become a journalist.) "Actually, we are opposites," Ladan said last month...