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Terminally ill man set to undergo first full HEAD transplant (trun title)
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Will Stewart and Nick Fagge

Posted on 04/08/2015 12:29:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

A man with a fatal medical condition has spoken exclusively to MailOnline about how he is set to become the first person to undergo a head transplant and hopes it could be as soon as next year.

Valery Spiridonov says he is ready to put his trust in controversial surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero who claims he can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy body.

Mr Spiridonov, 30, a computer scientist from Russia, said: 'My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind.'

As a lifelong sufferer of the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease, he says he wants the chance of a new body before he dies.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Actual title: EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, the terminally ill man set to be first to undergo the world's first full HEAD transplant pioneered by doctor branded 'nuts'

Sorry about changing title, but simple truncation left a confusing title.

1 posted on 04/08/2015 12:29:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

link


2 posted on 04/08/2015 12:30:30 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: RoosterRedux

Who is donating the healthy body?


3 posted on 04/08/2015 12:31:00 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: RoosterRedux

Roland was a warrior, from the land of the midnight sun...


4 posted on 04/08/2015 12:31:10 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: RoosterRedux

His assistant, a Mr. Igor, was not available for comment.


5 posted on 04/08/2015 12:31:35 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: GeronL

It said a brain-dead patient. So it’s obvious a liberal.


6 posted on 04/08/2015 12:31:51 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: GeronL

Well the posting order worked out on that one.


7 posted on 04/08/2015 12:32:02 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: RoosterRedux

He really knows how to get ahead in life.


8 posted on 04/08/2015 12:32:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RoosterRedux
"I done it first, ya know. Them big city doctor's don't know nuthin."


9 posted on 04/08/2015 12:32:49 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Those too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“he doesn’t plan on changing his mind” ...lol. No, just his body.


10 posted on 04/08/2015 12:32:50 PM PDT by wattsgnu
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
'My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind.'

11 posted on 04/08/2015 12:32:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: MrEdd

lol


12 posted on 04/08/2015 12:33:07 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: RoosterRedux

Where did you get this? World Weekly News?.............


13 posted on 04/08/2015 12:33:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: MrEdd

With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done


14 posted on 04/08/2015 12:33:29 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: RoosterRedux

white head, black body


15 posted on 04/08/2015 12:33:45 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: GeronL

Abbey Normal.


16 posted on 04/08/2015 12:33:53 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: ColdOne

Yeah. A link would be good.


17 posted on 04/08/2015 12:34:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
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To: RoosterRedux

"I ain't got nobody...."

18 posted on 04/08/2015 12:34:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RoosterRedux

19 posted on 04/08/2015 12:34:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

It’s a tie!


20 posted on 04/08/2015 12:34:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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