Death: It's the solution to everything!

Murder, human experience has shown, generally is a poor method of problem solving.

Unfortunately, the medical profession never got the memo. So, with doctors being a bit thick when it comes to these things, sometimes the Almighty has to resort to a figurative bitch slap to get the message across.

NATURALLY, "stunned" medical professionals can't explain why nature was so uncooperative about acting like it was supposed to. The Daily Mail in London has the "Cheerio! Pip pip, and all that rot!" details of "Yes, we did unsuccessfully try to kill you for your own good in the womb, but it seems to have all worked out in the end":

They say twins share a strong bond - but the one between Gabriel and Ieuan Jones was unbreakable.

When doctors found that Gabriel was weaker than his brother, with an enlarged heart,and believed he was going to die in the womb, his mother Rebecca Jones had to make a heartbreaking decision.

Doctors told her his death could cause his twin brother to die too before they were born, and that it would be better to end Gabriel's suffering sooner rather than later.

Thriving: Gabriel, right, with his twin brother Ieuan, is now a healthy 12lb 6oz at seven months

Mrs Jones decided to let doctors operate to terminate Gabriel's life.

Firstly they tried to sever his umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply, but the cord was too strong.

They then cut Mrs Jones's placenta in half so that when Gabriel died, it would not affect his twin brother.

But after the operation which was meant to end his life, tiny Gabriel had other ideas.

Although he weighed less than a pound, he put up such a fight for survival that doctors called him Rocky.

Astonishingly, he managed to carry on living in his mother's womb for another five weeks - until the babies were delivered by caesarean section.

Now he and Ieuan are back at home in Stoke - and are so close they are always holding each other's hand.

Mrs Jones, 35, a financial adviser whose husband Mark, 36, is a car salesman, said: "It really is a miracle. Doctors carried out an operation to let Gabriel die - yet he hung on.

"It was unbelievable."

LOOK AT THE PICTURE of those sweet children. Now, which one was supposed to be better off dead, again?