Posted on 04/28/2017 10:45:51 PM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero will undertake the first human head transplant later this year in China, the doctor told German magazine Ooom in an article published Thursday. And, following that effort, he will revive a cryogenically frozen brain and transplant it into a donor body within the next three years.
The plans, completely disconnected from reality and the state of modern medicine, are at least in line with his previous outlandish goals and dubious animal research.
Canavero made headlines in the past few years by claiming that transplanting the whole head of a human onto a donor body is currently possible. A Russian man, suffering from a spinal muscular atrophy malady called Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease, even publicly volunteered for the procedure.
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The dude is gonna need some Aleve...
What if it works.
That polio vaccine won’t work!
When the head is transplanted, who is the donor and who is the recipient?
Are you the person of your head, or are you the person of your body?
This will work if Dr. Ben Carson assists and they do the operation in the grain storage area of the Great Pyramid.
At some point one will go on backwards.
surgeon plans human head transplant, revival of frozen brainz>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hell, I do that to myself every morning, without surgery!
Are you sure it’s not a body transplant?
The story reads as if it is a body transplant.
That funneh :)
Yes...the vibes...I totally get it.
If they cannot correct most serious spinal injuries, I doubt there will be much success with a head transplant.
Didn’t Granny Clampett already do that?
It would not be a head transplant, it would be a body transplant.
The patient head is fine and his body is ailing.
The donor would be donating his body, not his head.
It’s a body transplant.
Out of his mind?
Guess he needs a brain or head transplant, like Joey in Friends. ;)
Seriously, this can’t be possible!
Abby who?
Head transplants are do-able, reviving frozen heads of dead people, I haven’t seen any evidence of it.
The Russians have footage (decades old) that asserts that a dog was “killed” (no heart activity) and brought back to life (don’t know how much longer it lived). They also grafted dogs heads (living) to live dogs, both heads survived and the animals lived a few weeks until infection set in I think (don’t know if any tissue was rejected).
There is also footage showing a living severed dog head being kept alive. It isn’t rocket science.
And now, Roky Erickson’s Two Headed Dog. People thought h was literally crazy for mentioning such things. With the internetz, you can see the footage for yourself. No dogs in this clip, just guitars and rock & roll.
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqwnrn0iKCo
Just sickening. They should have used their own heads, not some poor little dog
I think if you want a head that blinks and lives a week, yes.
Hmmm...has possibilities....
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