What about with triplets or more? Say one dies in a car accident, are the remaining people still considered triplets, or are they now twins?
What would you say if your siblings died? I would say that if one of my twin sons died, it would make the other one the “surviving twin.”
Yeah, if one dies, the state of twin-ness or triplet-ness still exists. I know someone whose twin brother died, but it doesn’t change the fact that he was born a twin. He still talks about his “twin brother.”
As far as I know, Romulus and Remus are still regarded as twins
My mother was a triplet, but one baby died at birth. She refers to herself and her surviving brother as twins.
The way I hear it phrased most commonly is something like “John and Mary, my surviving triplets” or “Joe is a surviving twin.”
The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll?
Hmm. That’s funny. That’s addressed in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events book 5. One of the Quagmire triplets died in a fire and everyone calls the two survivors twins by mistake. They say that the death doesn’t change their birth identity. They are still triplets and to call them twins if you know better is to act as if their third sibling never existed. Which isn’t very nice.
If your non-twin sibling dies, you will still identify yourself as a sibling when it comes up. You would not say you were an only child. So it’s the same if you were a twin or a triplet.
Especially in the The Twilght Zone
As a triplet, if one of my sisters died, I would still call myself a triplet. That is what I am. It is what I always will be.
Sure they said he died, but maybe they just locked him up in the attic at Graceland with an iron mask concealing his face. Maybe Jesse was the rightful King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.