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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.

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KEYWORDS: headtransplant; transplant
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To: GeronL

I think they are going to put the head on a chihuahua, like in Mars Attacks.


81 posted on 04/08/2015 2:19:34 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: lonevoice

Here is a topic for Art Bell’s upcoming radio show! Read all the posts - they are hilarious!


82 posted on 04/08/2015 2:28:02 PM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: Zeneta
BWAHAHAHA.

"Planet Claire has, pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head..."

83 posted on 04/08/2015 2:29:14 PM PDT by JOAT
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To: RoosterRedux
I do not plan to change my mind.

Uh ... technically, you plan to do just that!

84 posted on 04/08/2015 2:35:54 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: RoosterRedux

85 posted on 04/08/2015 3:08:07 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: RoosterRedux

Whoa! I believe there was a movie based on this back in the early 70’s. I could be wrong but I think it was Rosie Grier who played the 2 headed person.


86 posted on 04/08/2015 3:32:14 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Pride in the USA; Art Bell

Thanks! Bookmarking to read later.


87 posted on 04/08/2015 4:33:03 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Be sure you connect everything correctly. Blood vessels, nerves. Slip up there and it’s a catastrophe. You won’t have a second chance.

Have professional counseling available. When the brain experiences the new connections to a strange body it will be overwhelmed by the new experiences.

Try to do something about the pain, ok? Nerves and blood vessels severed. That’s got to hurt.

The spinal cord. Gonna hook that up right? Don’t want the guy to be paralyzed do you?

Do you know what happens to the mind when it’s cut off from the outside world for extended periods of time? you’re gonna find out!


88 posted on 04/08/2015 4:36:49 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Gamecock
"The transplant was successful but for some reason we can't get the patient to stop touching himself."


89 posted on 04/08/2015 5:04:04 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: MrEdd
Roland was a warrior, from the land of the midnight sun...

Lol, Warren's spirit lives on.

90 posted on 04/08/2015 5:13:56 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: RoosterRedux
Nimoy is in front of this guy on the waiting list.


91 posted on 04/08/2015 5:36:39 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: RoosterRedux

When I first read the title I thought he was going to get a new head on his old body.


92 posted on 04/08/2015 5:43:54 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Reeses

Never left home again.


93 posted on 04/09/2015 6:08:33 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: varyouga

You could always clone the bodies, less brains.


94 posted on 04/09/2015 8:42:32 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Vaquero

One of the funniest movies ever.


95 posted on 04/09/2015 4:48:26 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: miliantnutcase
I’d buy that for a dollar!

Would you buy it for a quarter?

The Marching Morons

96 posted on 04/09/2015 4:52:58 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: NativeSon

The best part of that movie was by far the motocross scene.

It had a Dukes of Hazard type of craziness to it.

it just can’t be explained with today’s technology.


97 posted on 04/14/2015 6:00:48 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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