article_snippet.sent: Others recount twins suffering pains, in the same part of the body, when only one of Others recount twins is hurt.
article_snippet.sent: Joan Woodward 2009 study of twin bereavement, reported several striking examples of twins’ reactions when one of several striking examples of twins’ reactions dies.
article_snippet.sent: Some young twins simply do not believe the death, and continue to act as if one twin is alive, talking to the dead sibling at breakfast, in a shared twin language, for instance.
article_snippet.sent: Other infant twins seem painfully confused as to whether Other infant twins twin is really gone, because Other infant twins keep seeing the living image of Other infant twins dead sibling in the mirror or in a reflecting window; when Other infant twins see Other infant twins, Other infant twins see the sibling.
article_snippet.sent: By contrast, a few bereaved twin children deliberately seek out mirrors in order to reassure a few bereaved twin children a few bereaved twin children dead twin lives on.
article_snippet.sent: a few bereaved twin children want to see the living ghost.
article_snippet.sent: Woodward records how some, following the death of a co-twin, take over their lost sibling’s characteristics and behaviour, as if trying to make up for the loss by actually becoming the dead sibling.
article_snippet.sent: One twin whose brother died at the age of 12 became so eerily like One twin whose brother died at the age of 12 dead sibling that One twin whose brother died at the age of 12 parents were convinced One twin whose brother died at the age of 12 had the ‘spirit of One twin whose brother died at the age of 12 brother within One twin whose brother died at the age of 12’.
article_snippet.sent: Another female twin was so grief-stricken
article_snippet.sent: Another female twin took Another female twin dead sister’s name.
article_snippet.sent: These strange reactions surrounding the deaths of identicals can have effects beyond the twins themselves.
article_snippet.sent: During my research, I came across one wholly remarkable example of twin confusion, following a death.