diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index d71f8afd82b878..fb4324f968a9ec 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -1504,6 +1504,9 @@ fs.copyFileSync('source.txt', 'destination.txt', COPYFILE_EXCL);
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.1.31
 changes:
+  - version: REPLACEME
+    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29212
+    description: Enable `emitClose` option.
   - version: v11.0.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19898
     description: Impose new restrictions on `start` and `end`, throwing
@@ -1529,6 +1532,7 @@ changes:
   * `fd` {integer} **Default:** `null`
   * `mode` {integer} **Default:** `0o666`
   * `autoClose` {boolean} **Default:** `true`
+  * `emitClose` {boolean} **Default:** `false`
   * `start` {integer}
   * `end` {integer} **Default:** `Infinity`
   * `highWaterMark` {integer} **Default:** `64 * 1024`
@@ -1555,6 +1559,10 @@ If `fd` points to a character device that only supports blocking reads
 available. This can prevent the process from exiting and the stream from
 closing naturally.
 
+By default, the stream will not emit a `'close'` event after it has been
+destroyed. This is the opposite of the default for other `Readable` streams.
+Set the `emitClose` option to `true` to change this behavior.
+
 ```js
 const fs = require('fs');
 // Create a stream from some character device.
@@ -1592,6 +1600,9 @@ If `options` is a string, then it specifies the encoding.
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 added: v0.1.31
 changes:
+  - version: REPLACEME
+    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29212
+    description: Enable `emitClose` option.
   - version: v7.6.0
     pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10739
     description: The `path` parameter can be a WHATWG `URL` object using
@@ -1615,6 +1626,7 @@ changes:
   * `fd` {integer} **Default:** `null`
   * `mode` {integer} **Default:** `0o666`
   * `autoClose` {boolean} **Default:** `true`
+  * `emitClose` {boolean} **Default:** `false`
   * `start` {integer}
 * Returns: {fs.WriteStream} See [Writable Stream][].
 
@@ -1631,6 +1643,10 @@ then the file descriptor won't be closed, even if there's an error.
 It is the application's responsibility to close it and make sure there's no
 file descriptor leak.
 
+By default, the stream will not emit a `'close'` event after it has been
+destroyed. This is the opposite of the default for other `Writable` streams.
+Set the `emitClose` option to `true` to change this behavior.
+
 Like [`ReadStream`][], if `fd` is specified, [`WriteStream`][] will ignore the
 `path` argument and will use the specified file descriptor. This means that no
 `'open'` event will be emitted. `fd` should be blocking; non-blocking `fd`s
diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/streams.js b/lib/internal/fs/streams.js
index dfff08dbbd1d2a..deb79850f4924c 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/streams.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/streams.js
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ function ReadStream(path, options) {
     options.highWaterMark = 64 * 1024;
 
   // For backwards compat do not emit close on destroy.
-  options.emitClose = false;
+  if (options.emitClose === undefined) {
+    options.emitClose = false;
+  }
 
   Readable.call(this, options);
 
@@ -241,7 +243,9 @@ function WriteStream(path, options) {
   options = copyObject(getOptions(options, {}));
 
   // For backwards compat do not emit close on destroy.
-  options.emitClose = false;
+  if (options.emitClose === undefined) {
+    options.emitClose = false;
+  }
 
   Writable.call(this, options);
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-stream-destroy-emit-error.js b/test/parallel/test-fs-stream-destroy-emit-error.js
index c0405ce5f154f0..c1db9547a8a158 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-fs-stream-destroy-emit-error.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fs-stream-destroy-emit-error.js
@@ -6,8 +6,31 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const tmpdir = require('../common/tmpdir');
 tmpdir.refresh();
 
-test(fs.createReadStream(__filename));
-test(fs.createWriteStream(`${tmpdir.path}/dummy`));
+{
+  const stream = fs.createReadStream(__filename);
+  stream.on('close', common.mustNotCall());
+  test(stream);
+}
+
+{
+  const stream = fs.createWriteStream(`${tmpdir.path}/dummy`);
+  stream.on('close', common.mustNotCall());
+  test(stream);
+}
+
+{
+  const stream = fs.createReadStream(__filename, { emitClose: true });
+  stream.on('close', common.mustCall());
+  test(stream);
+}
+
+{
+  const stream = fs.createWriteStream(`${tmpdir.path}/dummy2`,
+                                      { emitClose: true });
+  stream.on('close', common.mustCall());
+  test(stream);
+}
+
 
 function test(stream) {
   const err = new Error('DESTROYED');