The article says he accidentally shot himself in the face in 1997.
I’m wondering, though, is this is the same guy I remember reading about and seeing news stories about, who was trying to commit suicide along with a friend of his.
As I recall, it had something to do with their obsession with a heavy metal song or something. The first guy successfully blew his own head off, but the second took off most of the front of his head without hitting his brain, and manged to survive. I’m pretty sure the case I’m remembering occurred in the mid to late 90s, so I’m wondering if this his him.
In any event, it appears he’s turned his life around, and I’m glad the transplant has worked out for him.
Correction: In any event, if it is him, it appears he’s turned his life around. I’m glad the transplant has worked out for him.
//Norris was only 22 when his face ‘exploded’.
The story goes that he had arrived home after drinking and was arguing with his mother when he took a shotgun from his gun cabinet and told his mom he was going to shoot himself.
But when he went to place the gun down, it went off. //
Could be. That said, there have been many people who thought they’d kill themselves or somebody else with a shotgun and then only ended up blowing off their faces, either because the gun (which is heavy) shifted when they pulled the trigger or because they suddenly changed their minds.
We had a woman one place I lived who had had her face blown off by a rejected boyfriend who was trying to kill her but didn’t know how to use a shotgun. I think she may have been one of the earliest recipients of this surgery.
That said, they’ll be printing faces in no time at all, unless euthanasia prevents this from happening. They can already print tissue.
Euthanasia is going to seriously degrade the quality of medical research and medical care. Why invest money in helping or curing or restoring people when you can just kill them (or get them to consent to their own deaths)?
I remember the documentary.
He lived and is lower jaw and nose were gone, and his parents tried to sue Ozzie Osborne.
IIRC, at the end of the documentary, it said he finally finished himself off with some pills.
Sorry, it was a lawsuit against Judas Priest.
here’s the documentary:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104140/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1