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Terminally ill man set to undergo first full HEAD transplant (trun title)
dailymail.co.uk ^
| Will Stewart and Nick Fagge
Posted on 04/08/2015 12:29:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
A man with a fatal medical condition has spoken exclusively to MailOnline about how he is set to become the first person to undergo a head transplant and hopes it could be as soon as next year.
Valery Spiridonov says he is ready to put his trust in controversial surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero who claims he can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy body.
Mr Spiridonov, 30, a computer scientist from Russia, said: 'My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind.'
As a lifelong sufferer of the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease, he says he wants the chance of a new body before he dies.
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KEYWORDS: headtransplant; transplant
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To: Red Badger
See post 38. Sorry bout that.
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posted on
04/08/2015 12:46:54 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
To: hosepipe
Its all come down to a head. well actually— a body.
42
posted on
04/08/2015 12:47:30 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: RoosterRedux
Of course there is always that tricky spinal cord
thing, he could end up even worse off, maybe he should
get a second opinion...or at least talk to a chiropractor.
43
posted on
04/08/2015 12:48:16 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: GeronL
Someone who died of a head injury?
44
posted on
04/08/2015 12:49:15 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
To: SunkenCiv
Well, he’s right: he’s changing his body..............
45
posted on
04/08/2015 12:49:15 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: RoosterRedux
My BS detector just red-lined.
46
posted on
04/08/2015 12:49:19 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: GeronL
I’m sure there are many in Saudi Arabia and thereabouts..........
47
posted on
04/08/2015 12:49:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: RoosterRedux
Just watched “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” last weekend with the same subject. Was pretty good.
48
posted on
04/08/2015 12:51:24 PM PDT
by
Wilum
(Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
To: RoosterRedux
49
posted on
04/08/2015 12:52:13 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: hosepipe
Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?
You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set! We need dirty laundry
These song references just write themselves.
50
posted on
04/08/2015 12:52:33 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: dfwgator
51
posted on
04/08/2015 12:52:33 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
To: RoosterRedux; GeronL; dfwgator
The patient's head would then be placed onto the donor's body and attached using what Canavero calls his 'magic ingredient' - a glue-like substance called polyethylene glycol - to fuse the two ends of the spinal cord together. POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL IS ALSO KNOWN AS ANTI-FREEZE..............
52
posted on
04/08/2015 12:52:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: RoosterRedux
It think it would be safer to leave the head and do the full body transplant, instead!
53
posted on
04/08/2015 12:52:54 PM PDT
by
sagar
To: RoosterRedux
If it were possible to even do such a radical thing his body would be a total quadriplegic. Major blood vessels can be connected but not the nerve endings and the cervical spine would be cut in the process. I’d be praying the Lord get my new body ready in heaven and call it a life.
54
posted on
04/08/2015 12:54:15 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: RoosterRedux
“I am not changing my mind,” but, I will change my body. I say all involved in this plan are “NUTS.”
55
posted on
04/08/2015 12:56:07 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: RoosterRedux
Could you furnish a link? Thank you.
To: RoosterRedux
I have a conspiracy theory that spinal cures will be forever kept under wraps to prevent body (or even head) transplants.
If you can perfectly repair spinal tissue, swapping heads would be no big deal.
Everyone wealthy would keep swapping their body for a shapely 25 year old one. A crazy black market for bodies would result.
57
posted on
04/08/2015 1:02:08 PM PDT
by
varyouga
To: SunkenCiv
58
posted on
04/08/2015 1:02:30 PM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
(Enormous wealth without God, something's bound to go wrong here.)
To: tflabo
The doctor tried this operation on a monkey before. It was a total failure.
59
posted on
04/08/2015 1:05:21 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: GeronL
60
posted on
04/08/2015 1:07:04 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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