The ultimate organ transplant...
The one good thing politicians always do is die. Can you imagine Ted Kennedy living forever? It would always be a liberal who wants to live forever at the expense of others. A true conservative would never hold his own life over the lives of others, so they would all die. (To live on at such a high expense would undo the philosophy they served.)
Imagine the future Hitlers, Kim Jung Ils and Pol Pots living forever. Oh, joy.
Why polymer glue? Why not Super Glue? Or better yet, Velcro, that way you have several heads, like one for every day of the week. Anyone who is looking to get ahead today will want several.
This is creeping me out (gee I’m glad the monkey lived 8 days, that was sure a success!).
But I must ask, is it a “head” transplant or a “body” transplant, really?
That’ll piss off the muzzies.
There are a lot of head-trauma accidents which leave the victim brain-dead, but the body relatively healthy. If it is ethical to use the victim’s organs, why is it unethical to use the whole body?
This would only be useful for Democrats if they were provide with head donors, so their’s could be thrown away.
Day by day C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strenght” drifts closer to becoming reality.
ISIS scientists are working on it.
They’ve been possible for decades.
Russians in the 50s performed live head transplants on dogs (they lived until infection set in, things are better these days).
An American scientist repeated the tests with monkeys around 2000.
Both were filmed and viewable on youtube.
The content is somewhat extreme (you see a dog’s severed head connected to lungs and a heart all working to take in oxygen and feed it to the brain. The dog is responsive to sight (light), sound, touch, and smell. I don’t recall if taste was examined.
The doctor with the monkey did the same thing.
Seems to me that the ethics are all about the acquisition of the parts, not the operation itself. Whether a single organ or all of them at once, the ethical issues are pretty much the same.
If this capability really existed (which I doubt) it seems too that the larger promise would be in the case of spinal cord injuries. If you can graft one spinal cord to another, a repair of a damaged one would be small potatoes.
Oh, great. Not content with wrecking economies and undermining sovereignty worldwide, we’ll now have amoral transnational billionaires window-shopping for bodies amongst the hoi polloi.