I used to live in their hometown. My roommate in the 90s and 00s was friends with them. I never met them myself, but saw them in passing at the mall near where they lived.
They had a hard time getting transportation back then, taxis would refuse to pick them up because of the chair they needed, and they had a hard time getting onto the city bus. But it sounds like in later years they had less struggle with that.
I got extra confused by the names Rori, Dori, Reba, and George.
I want to apologize in advance for dead naming. But it helps to fully understand.
They were born Lori and Dori.
Dori went after the name Reba, after Reba McIntire, and pursued country singing.
In 2007, Dori had come out as a trans man and preferred to be publicly known as George.
It must be terrible to live like that
im always fascinated by conjoined twins.
what a crazy existence that must be.
That’s kind of terrible if you think about it. These are people not zoo animals.
thats what makes it crazy
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Me too, I wonder if they both died at the exact same time or if one was conscious longer.
Oh shit I didn’t think about that, that’s fucked.
Imagine the person you spent your entire life with just dies and they’re still attached to you. And you know it’s only a matter of time until you’re up next - sepsis, embolism, organ failure… What a nightmare.
That is probably why they didn’t release the details.
My search-fu is failing to find any material about George and Lori that isn’t regurgitated news of their deaths.
I was hoping to find some material in medical journals describing the nature of their craniopagy and what the complications are regarding what neurological elements are shared. That might have been helpful understanding why they were not separated and what might have happened to the twins leading to their deaths.
