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First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims
www.theguardian.com ^ | 02-25-2015 | Staff

Posted on 02/26/2015 6:18:05 AM PST by Red Badger

A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years.

Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.

Canavero hopes to assemble a team to explore the radical surgery in a project he is due to launch at a meeting for neurological surgeons in Maryland this June.

He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.

The Italian doctor, who recently published a broad outline of how the surgery could be performed, told New Scientist magazine that he wanted to use body transplants to prolong the lives of people affected by terminal diseases.

“If society doesn’t want it, I won’t do it. But if people don’t want it, in the US or Europe, that doesn’t mean it won’t be done somewhere else,” he said. “I’m trying to go about this the right way, but before going to the moon, you want to make sure people will follow you.”

Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic.

The history of transplantation is full of cases where people hated their new appendages and had them removed. The psychological burden of emerging from anaesthetic with an entirely new body is firmly in uncharted territory. Another hitch is that medical ethics boards would almost certainly not approve experiments in primates to test whether the procedure works.

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To: Buckeye McFrog

Bubba’s found one for Hillary.

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-25/news/mn-8167_1_inca-mummy

Clinton joked during a political fund-raiser Wednesday that the 500-year-old frozen mummy, known as the Ice Princess, was “good-looking” and if he were single he might ask her out. “That mummy looks better than I do on my worst days,” he said.


61 posted on 02/26/2015 7:20:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Lazamataz

“George Soros, here for eternity.”

I read a book about this, it was hitler’s head that had been frozen and tucked away in an Alpine glacier. Authorities got onto them by finding discarded heads from their experiments. Fortunately this didn’t end well for hitler either.


62 posted on 02/26/2015 7:22:02 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: Red Badger

Aren’t we lucky to have all these Muslims infesting our homelands, so that in the future they can create lots of valuable donor bodies.


63 posted on 02/26/2015 7:41:11 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: MrB

Dr. Hfuhruhurr


64 posted on 02/26/2015 7:52:39 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

spelled just like it sounds.


65 posted on 02/26/2015 7:58:11 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hillary could commandeer an Arnold Schwarzenegger body. Then she could really beat the S out of her poor husband, ramp up her abuse of her aides, — and achieve far greater popularity with some of “the women in her life.”


66 posted on 02/26/2015 7:58:28 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: PLMerite

Neurosurgical miscegenation ?


67 posted on 02/26/2015 7:59:51 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Why not? A foreign head on a foreign body is apparently eligible


68 posted on 02/26/2015 8:01:03 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: Red Badger

There is also a Dr. White in this country who has been performing experiments in this field.


69 posted on 02/26/2015 8:02:38 AM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott Mexico)
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To: Red Badger

Was that “Avatar”? Didn’t see it. I saw it in a bargain bin at WalMart recently. Is it worth viewing?

I read science fiction, watch westerns. As you might imagine, I don’t get out to theaters much anymore.


70 posted on 02/26/2015 8:03:18 AM PST by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. Jefferson)
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To: Red Badger

Just in time for Hillary and 2016.....


71 posted on 02/26/2015 8:10:44 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Spartan79

If you saw Kevin Costner’s movie ‘Dances With Wolves’ then just transplant the characters hundreds of years into the future, replace the Sioux with 12 foot tall blue aliens with tails, replace Costner’s character with a disabled Space Marine whose mind is transplanted into a cloned alien body, and the US Army Cavalry with corporate mercenaries seeking control of the aliens’ planet (Actually a moon of some faraway gas giant) for mining ‘Unobtainium’ minerals that defy gravity, and you basically have ‘AVATAR’...........AKA ‘Dances With Smurfs’......................Good movie if you suspend your logic and reason sections of your brain for three hours........... part animated computer graphics, part live action, also stars Sigourney Weaver..................


72 posted on 02/26/2015 8:12:44 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Umm no. We still aren’t good enough with spinal cord surgery for this to be even close.


73 posted on 02/26/2015 8:13:30 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: discostu

Barrier-breaking drug may lead to spinal cord injury treatments

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/ninds-03.htm


74 posted on 02/26/2015 8:16:20 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: GraceG

She needs a new head and body.........................


75 posted on 02/26/2015 8:17:07 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: MarineBrat

Well, ‘donor’ isn’t exactly the right word....................


76 posted on 02/26/2015 8:18:03 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Unless it doesn’t.

When contemplating projected major medical breakthroughs remember our life expectancy was “supposed to” top 150 in the 1990s. This guy is just looking for grant money.


77 posted on 02/26/2015 8:19:49 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: Red Badger

Well, after all, there is a huge source of heads and bodies in the Middle East.


78 posted on 02/26/2015 8:21:57 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Red Badger

Oh, that’s just gross. How long could you stand the smell before ya got rid of it!?


79 posted on 02/26/2015 8:26:02 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Red Badger

“The Italian doctor, who recently published a broad outline of how the surgery could be performed, told New Scientist magazine that he wanted to use body transplants to prolong the lives of people affected by terminal diseases.”

If it works, you can bet that the trannies will clamor to jump to the head of the line for this procedure.


80 posted on 02/26/2015 8:56:38 AM PST by Boogieman
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