EXCLUSIVE: 'I'm not going crazy to cut my head off here': Disabled ‘guinea pig’ for first full HEAD transplant to meet surgeon for first time this week and insists he'll only go under knife when it is '99% possible'
Journey: Valery Spiridonov, pictured at Moscow airport on Wednesday, is flying the New York to finally meet the man who may one day cut his head off and reattach it to another person's body
I wish him well.....................
this will not end well
It was done in Russian with dogs in the mid-century and done again with monkeys in Cleveland at the end of the 20th century.
Complications in the USSR were because of infection (animals lived for upwards of a week and were not on artificial organ machines).
I don’t know enough about the Cleveland experiments to know how long they lived.
Working through the possibilities if this really works, which it has for a few days on smaller animals...How does the body and head get over tissue rejection? Would the head reject the body or vice versa?
At the beginning of the procedure there are two living humans. At the end there is one. Explain to me why this is not killing one of them?
The body isn’t the entire problem. Some of it is in the head. Putting a new body on the head won’t solve the problem.
Dead man walking^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrolling.
I would truly love for this to work, but I think it won’t. They are both brave for trying.
I pity the guy and his condition. It sounds like a horrible disease.
Just from a logistics point of view is what’s the point? To just be a “head on a stick” to keep you alive? There just isn’t a way to connect the nerves to have a functioning body. The body will be hooked up to ever machine possible to keep it alive. And with his failing body now it will be the same way.
"...can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?"
As likely to be successful as any attempt to remove Obama’s head from his ass.
This is prolly getting Bruce Jenner excited..?
Bender may have a problem with this.