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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I think they are going to put the head on a chihuahua, like in Mars Attacks.
Here is a topic for Art Bell’s upcoming radio show! Read all the posts - they are hilarious!
"Planet Claire has, pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head..."
Uh ... technically, you plan to do just that!
Whoa! I believe there was a movie based on this back in the early 70’s. I could be wrong but I think it was Rosie Grier who played the 2 headed person.
Thanks! Bookmarking to read later.
Be sure you connect everything correctly. Blood vessels, nerves. Slip up there and it’s a catastrophe. You won’t have a second chance.
Have professional counseling available. When the brain experiences the new connections to a strange body it will be overwhelmed by the new experiences.
Try to do something about the pain, ok? Nerves and blood vessels severed. That’s got to hurt.
The spinal cord. Gonna hook that up right? Don’t want the guy to be paralyzed do you?
Do you know what happens to the mind when it’s cut off from the outside world for extended periods of time? you’re gonna find out!
Lol, Warren's spirit lives on.
When I first read the title I thought he was going to get a new head on his old body.
Never left home again.
You could always clone the bodies, less brains.
One of the funniest movies ever.
Would you buy it for a quarter?
The best part of that movie was by far the motocross scene.
It had a Dukes of Hazard type of craziness to it.
it just can’t be explained with today’s technology.
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