Suicide among womb twin survivors

The rate of suicidal thoughts among womb twin survivors is very high.  The number of successful suicides seems also to be high, but there are no figures for that, only my own experience of knowing four people, (who looked, acted and thought like womb twin survivors but who never knew about it) who killed themselves. 


In two cases it was a long time ago and I didn't know what I was looking at because I knew nothing then about womb twin survivors.  One case of an overdose of insulin in a car park, then there was Roger, who smoked himself into bronchitis and then pneumonia and died in the ICU refusing all antibiotics.  The last two were lovely, lively loving people who just sunk into despair and decided to die.


I listened to the Beyond Belief programme about suicide yesterday. It seems that research has shown that  a loss of hope is a strong predictor of suicide. Gosh.  That's like saying that cardiac arrest is a strong predictor of death.


We need to think carefully about the loss of hope among womb twin survivors. We need to make it quite clear that the wish to die is the wish to pass into the realm of the dead and be forever with your lost twin. 


I need to work on that.  It's in the new book, but its not enough, not yet. 


Some womb twin survivors don't want to alive, if being alive is to be always alone, without their twin.  That's  about the size of it I think.  Comments welcomed, or contact me privately. 


(Still proof reading  and checking the Magnum Opus and looking forward to taking a break!!!!)