Kind of like being asked to train your replacement.
Posted on 02/26/2015 6:18:05 AM PST by Red Badger
A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years.
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.
Canavero hopes to assemble a team to explore the radical surgery in a project he is due to launch at a meeting for neurological surgeons in Maryland this June.
He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.
The Italian doctor, who recently published a broad outline of how the surgery could be performed, told New Scientist magazine that he wanted to use body transplants to prolong the lives of people affected by terminal diseases.
“If society doesn’t want it, I won’t do it. But if people don’t want it, in the US or Europe, that doesn’t mean it won’t be done somewhere else,” he said. “I’m trying to go about this the right way, but before going to the moon, you want to make sure people will follow you.”
Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic.
The history of transplantation is full of cases where people hated their new appendages and had them removed. The psychological burden of emerging from anaesthetic with an entirely new body is firmly in uncharted territory. Another hitch is that medical ethics boards would almost certainly not approve experiments in primates to test whether the procedure works.
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Step one: Get donor Body.
Step Two: Remove head from Donor Body.
Step Three: Remove head from Old Body.
Step Four: Attach head to New Body.
Step Five: PROFIT!...............
Kind of like being asked to train your replacement.
If you like your spouse’s personality but not physic, or vice versa, there you go!
The evil won’t be able to live for eternity in another person’s body because their own head is still subject to decay. So the next step-—an even more hideously evil one-—would be to transplant the evil one’s brain into the head of someone else. In any case, “body snatching” will take on a whole new meaning.
Must have used Joe Biden’s Brain...............
Would a foreign head grafted onto an American body be eligible to run for the White House?
TOO FUNNY! (Kerry’s Frankenstein pic). I’m glad I wasn’t deinking coffee...lol
PERFECT “Body” for that one
First: Get Alien knowledge..............
TOO FUNNY! (Kerry’s Frankenstein pic). I’m glad I wasn’t drinking coffee...lol
No, it wouldn’t be ‘natural born’..............
Personally, I would donate a large sum for him to undergo that procedure. The substance contained within his skull (I won't call it a brain) is so toxic and rotten that no amount of anti-rejection drugs or therapy could prevent his new large intestine from crawling up his gorge and strangling him.
I’d just like my 24 year old rockin’ Army body back! *SMIRK*
ROFL
Check the birth certificate. It represents a union. Certainly no less constitutional that the Clinton’s unelected “co-presidency”.
Hillary has already served (Hillarycare). Bill’s already said that he would sit in on meetings if asked. Yet we are faced with a third term.
I doubt they’d be able to change their sex, I think organ rejection would be like x1000 with this
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