[GovernmentShrinker]

"Conjoined twins" describes a huge spectrum, from easily correctable, to very low quality of life, to impossible to keep both alive, to impossible to keep either alive. A survey which lumps them all together is just meaningless garbage.

It's worth noting that the adult Iranian sisters who died a couple of years back after an attempt to separate them, had both determined that they'd rather take the substantial risk of dying from the surgery, than continue to live connected to each other at the head. Though from a medical standpoint, they were quite healthy while joined together, and had every reason to expect normal lifespans, they simply didn't want to live if they had to live that way.

[wagglebee]

It's worth noting that the adult Iranian sisters who died a couple of years back after an attempt to separate them, had both determined that they'd rather take the substantial risk of dying from the surgery, than continue to live connected to each other at the head.

However, it they were adults and it was a choice they both agreed upon about their own lives.

[ffusco]

who would?

[Squeako]

Though from a medical standpoint, they were quite healthy while joined together, and had every reason to expect normal lifespans, they simply didn't want to live if they had to live that way.

Do you think they preferred to never have lived?

I think it's a stretch to go from "accepting the risks of surgery" to "rather not live at all if it's like this". The former is reasonable, the latter is suicidal.