A Final Act of Free Choice
The strength of determination of the two Iranian twins who met their deaths has already touched the world. They have also bequeathed a valuable medical lesson.
July 15, 2003
THE twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani are finally parted. But not in life. Last Wednesday, one after the other, they both breathed their last breaths in the middle of a long and well-publicized operation in Raffles Hospital, Singapore.
Prayers to the heavens were sung all around. Only 24 hours after their death, 7,000 condolence letters arrived at the CNN Health News website from all over the world. Four hundred Muslims conducted a prayer servic
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