For Those With Terminal Illness, Full Body Transplant Available in Two Years - Would You Do It?

SeaBreeze

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Remove your head and attach it to a donor body....would anyone here do it? I wouldn't. :eek: http://www.theguardian.com/society/...-body-transplant-two-years-away-surgeon-claim


"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."
 

I believe Russian scientists did this back in the early '60's with a few monkeys and dogs. They didn't live long but showed that it WAS possible.

I would want a woman's body, just so I was never lacking for a date. :rolleyes:
 

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