It was like watching myself die: As one twin lay in a 昏睡 after a horrific car 事故, his brother 解任するs the terrible moment he decided to let him go

• Twins Andrew and Christopher Watson were in the same car 事故
  
• Christopher wore no seat belt and was left in a 昏睡 from age of 16
• Andrew let him go after three years and is only now able to talk of 外傷／ショック
  

By Angela Levin for MailOnline

Published: 22:33 BST, 2 March 2013 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 2 March 2013

同一の twins Andrew and Christopher Watson 株d an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の intuition. Throughout their schooldays, their 利益／興味s and talents were as indistinguishable as their looks.

So when, tragically, Christopher was left 罠にかける in a vegetative 明言する／公表する after a horrific car 事故 when the boys were just 16, Andrew knew that as his twin, he was? the 権利 person to speak on his brother’s に代わって.

And in 2009, three years after the 衝突，墜落, it was Andrew who made the heart-wrenching 決定／判定勝ち（する） to end his brother’s life.

After the 事故 in 2006 Chris 最初 still had some brain activity and would 答える／応じる to simple 命令（する）s

Twins Andrew (left) and Chris (権利) 株d an intuition which Andrew felt 熱心に when Chris was in a 昏睡

With the 十分な support of his mother Helen and older sister Emma, Andrew went to the High 法廷，裁判所 捜し出すing 許可 to 身を引く Christopher’s 栄養 and hydration. Two years later, after 実験（する）s were 完全にするd, the 法廷，裁判所 agreed and on December 7, 2010, Christopher died 平和的に in a hospice.

It is only now that Andrew, 23, feels able to talk about what happened and his 役割 in the 決定／判定勝ち（する）.

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‘Every time I saw Chris, it was like looking at a mirror image of myself,’ he says. ‘It was like watching? myself die. But if it had been me lying there, I’d have 手配中の，お尋ね者 him to do the same.?

‘I feel very empty without him. As though I have lost a part of myself. But the 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の thing is the moment he died, without realising it, I seem to hav e taken on his mannerisms.

'明らかに I now walk, cough and laugh just like him. I have told Mum I shall now have to live for the both of us.’

Andrew and his mother Helen (権利) decided three years later that ending life support was the 権利 thing to do

Andrew (left) and his twin Chris (権利) pictured with their mother Helen on a family holiday as children

Andrew and Christopher, from Lutterworth in Leicestershire, were boarders at Kingham Hill School in the Cotswolds at the time of the 事故.

They had spent the 週末 with family friends nearby. Their parents ? Peter, an accountant, and Helen ? were 離婚ing and it was a difficult time.

Alastair Godfrey, 19, the son of the family friend, 申し込む／申し出d to 運動 the twins and another schoolfriend, Hannah Jenkins, 支援する to school on the Sunday evening of April 30.?

Christopher and Andrew piled into the 支援する of Alastair’s Renault Clio.? Hannah sat in the 前線. Andrew put on his seatbelt, Christopher did not.? ‘Alastair drove along the 狭くする country roads and into the school grounds,’ Andrew 解任するs, ‘but we went over a hill too quickly and 粉砕するd into a 4x4 driven by one of the school’s groundkeepers.?

同一の twins Andrew (left) and Chris (権利) Watson at the age of four

‘I remember spinning around in the car and was then unconscious for a few minutes.

‘When I （機の）カム around, I decided to get help from school and as I wandered 負かす／撃墜する the road, I saw Chris lying curled up about 15 yards from the car. He was breathing but it was very shallow.

‘I was in such a 明言する／公表する of shock, I 最初 couldn’t work out why he was there. It was only later I heard he had been thrown out of the car.??

‘He and Alastair, who tragically died that night, were quickly taken away by 救急車.

‘Another 救急車 took Hannah ? who fortunately wasn’t too 不正に 傷つける ? and me to Gloucestershire 王室の Hospital.

'I had some 内部の bruising. Chris was taken to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. After a week, Mum told me that he wasn’t in good 形態／調整 so I went to see him.’

Andrew pauses and looks 負かす／撃墜する at his 手渡すs in his （競技場の）トラック一周. ‘I couldn’t stay with him for more than five minutes on that first occasion.

‘I don’t think anyone can understand what it is like seeing your 同一の twin like that because it looks as if it is you.

‘He had two 大規模な 黒人／ボイコット 注目する，もくろむs, his 長，率いる was shaved and there were tubes 大（公）使館員d to him everywhere. It could so easily have been me, if I hadn’t put my seatbelt on, and I felt knocked off my feet for a long time. I sat and cried in the hospital waiting room.

‘It was also so heartbreaking to realise that something like this could happen in a blink of an 注目する，もくろむ.

‘One minute we were having a laugh on the way 支援する to school and the next...

‘I 徐々に got more used to seeing him and on 正規の／正選手 occasions while he was in an induced 昏睡, I would 持つ／拘留する his 手渡す and talk to him and the nurses would tell me his 血 圧力 went 負かす／撃墜する and he seemed more relaxed. That helped relax me.?

‘I stayed at 搭乗 school, but thought about him all the time. Because of our telepathic 関係, when I couldn’t sleep or felt very agitated, I knew something was wrong.

'I would then phone Mum to ask about him and it usually turned out that he had had an epileptic fit. It was the weirdest experience.

Andrew (left) and Chris (権利) pictured with their sister Emma in 2005, one year before the 事故

'Chris still had some brain activity 最初 and would 答える／応じる to simple 命令（する）s, but いつかs when I thought I’d seen something, the nurses said they hadn’t.’

すぐに afterwards, Christopher was operated on for a 決裂d stomach and from then on 実験（する）s 記録，記録的な／記録するd 無 brain activity.

同様に as developing epilepsy, Christopher had several 一打／打撃s. His 免疫の system shut 負かす／撃墜する and he 苦しむd from meningitis, MRSA and chest and urinary 感染s.

In 2008, Andrew, his mother and sister met doctors and they について言及するd that 身を引くing feeding was an 選択. Andrew felt 肯定的な about the idea.

‘It was heart-wrenching to watch Chris’s physical 悪化／低下. He had no dignity and could not communicate, which is no way for anybody to live,’ says Andrew.

Christopher (left) and Andrew (権利) with their sister Emma

‘Mum 調印するd a “Do not resuscitate” order and we took the 決定／判定勝ち（する） as a family to 身を引く feeding and let nature take its course. I had to 軍隊 myself not to 焦点（を合わせる） on the emotional 味方する, as I didn’t want Chris to feel any of that when I went to see him.??

‘I believed 堅固に that as Chris couldn’t make the 決定／判定勝ち（する） for himself, I had to think for him. When you see someone who could do everything become 完全に helpless, you know it is no way to live.’??

The 法廷，裁判所 agreed in November 2010 that feeding could be 孤立した but the family then ran into another pr oblem.?

‘The lady who ran the care home in Leicester where Chris spent three years said she didn’t think it was the 権利 thing to do and wouldn’t 許す it to happen there. So we had to find a hospice to move him to.?

‘At the hospice, he 生き残るd for ten days and died 早期に on December 7. Mum went into his room first and I caught a glimpse of him through the door. It made me feel I had been 攻撃する，衝突する by a 巨大（な） 石／投石する.

‘But I told myself I had to go in. I said a final goodbye and a final? “I love you” then left in 不信 ? because I had lost the most important person in my life.’