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.
That’s why he wants to try it. He has nothing left to lose.................
The spinal reattachment tech is being tested now I believe. I think there are 2 or 3 people in Belgium recovering from severed spinal cords as we type.