Buying someone else's face..!??

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ValkyrieofHouston

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Wow, The View is on and Barbara Walters and Star and the gals are talking about the lady who had the face transplant. Apparently this woman's dog ate her face off after she took a slew of sleeping pills and fell unconcious. Anyway, this is the first of it's kind in the way of organ donor procedures. It has been approved in China and another country they said.. don't remember which one. Not in the US yet, though. However, what a personal thing. Could you imagine giving your loved ones face away as a donor face?

Star said that with as crazy as people are in the US she could see this being taken to a whole different level if this got approved in the US and some crazy rich person being put on the waiting list for like Angelino Jolie's face after she dies! Ugh... that is soooo morbid.
 
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There's more to the face than skin. You'll also have to replicate the bone structures. And this isn't anything new, when people decide on how they want plastic surgery to be done, they usually have a famous person's feature in mind.
 
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Why are you watching the View? How could you ever agree with anything Star Jones says? And why do people need their faces after they are dead? I'd gladly give mine away.
 
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One other thing, I have a good looking face and perhaps people should have to bid on faces they find appealing. Then my beneficaries can have the money that is used to pay for it :)
 
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ValkyrieofHouston

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Oh God, i can see it now.. not too far in the future... the rich and famous putting their famous faces up for auction!:roll:

You know this sorta reminds me of the movie Face Off.. with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage
 
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I don't think anyone would want a face transplant that didn't need one because of horrible disfigurement. Did you see that woman? While she probably looked like night of the living dead before, that droopy half working slab they installed wasn't exactly boner inducing.
 
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ValkyrieofHouston

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Originally posted by: PingSpike
I don't think anyone would want a face transplant that didn't need one because of horrible disfigurement. Did you see that woman? While she probably looked like night of the living dead before, that droopy half working slab they installed wasn't exactly boner inducing.
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Yea, but this is all new... give it time, the plastic surgeons will perfect this procedure. That is what they were talking about. It is a weird, morbid kind of thought, just thinking about it... but I guess if they just stick to a needs only basis it is a good thing for those that are disfigured.
 
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You also need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life, which compromises your immune system. While I'm hardly an expert, I don't think they'll ever succeed in a transplant that regains full muscle control...meaning you'd be trading a perfectly working face for a partially paralyzed one and a host of health complications. The only doctor you could get to perform this type of elective surgery would be some crazy nut that probably had his license to practice medicine revoked.

Not to mention you can't just drape Angelina Jolie's face over any old douchebags skull and expect them to look like Angelina Jolie.
 
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This just proves how fscking ignorant that bunch of babbling bitches are.

A face transplant will NOT make the recipient look ANYTHING like the donor. To do so would require all the supporting bone structures (basically, the entire skull).

Why do ignorant people take positions on things they know absolutely nothing about?
 
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Anyone who lies about how they've lost their weight can never make a good point about plastic surgery.
 
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ValkyrieofHouston

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Originally posted by: PingSpike
You also need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life, which compromises your immune system. While I'm hardly an expert, I don't think they'll ever succeed in a transplant that regains full muscle control...meaning you'd be trading a perfectly working face for a partially paralyzed one and a host of health complications. The only doctor you could get to perform this type of elective surgery would be some crazy nut that probably had his license to practice medicine revoked.

Not to mention you can't just drape Angelina Jolie's face over any old douchebags skull and expect them to look like Angelina Jolie.
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I agree and understand everything you say, but the fact is... there are so many people out there today even with all the info we still have, that go into docs offices saying I want Brittany Spears nose, or I want so and so's chin... even though in reality the doc can't do that. So feasibly I can see where some old coot with a lot of money could be shammed into giving a quack doc money for something like this. But, on the lighter side the plastic surgeons have accomplished something... and will perfect it. It looks as though they had a waiting period for the right donor to match her skin and cartilage. And she had a slim chance that it would work because her wounds were healing, and the skin and wounds on her face were retracting, so they weren't sure if it would work. She needed it, so she could function, speak, eat, etc.
 
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Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston
Originally posted by: PingSpike
You also need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life, which compromises your immune system. While I'm hardly an expert, I don't think they'll ever succeed in a transplant that regains full muscle control...meaning you'd be trading a perfectly working face for a partially paralyzed one and a host of health complications. The only doctor you could get to perform this type of elective surgery would be some crazy nut that probably had his license to practice medicine revoked.

Not to mention you can't just drape Angelina Jolie's face over any old douchebags skull and expect them to look like Angelina Jolie.
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I agree and understand everything you say, but the fact is... there are so many people out there today even with all the info we still have, that go into docs offices saying I want Brittany Spears nose, or I want so and so's chin... even though in reality the doc can't do that. So feasibly I can see where some old coot with a lot of money could be shammed into giving a quack doc money for something like this. But, on the lighter side the plastic surgeons have accomplished something... and will perfect it. It looks as though they had a waiting period for the right donor to match her skin and cartilage. And she had a slim chance that it would work because her wounds were healing, and the skin and wounds on her face were retracting, so they weren't sure if it would work. She needed it, so she could function, speak, eat, etc.
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Have you read the thread???
 
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ValkyrieofHouston

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: ValkyrieofHouston
Originally posted by: PingSpike
You also need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life, which compromises your immune system. While I'm hardly an expert, I don't think they'll ever succeed in a transplant that regains full muscle control...meaning you'd be trading a perfectly working face for a partially paralyzed one and a host of health complications. The only doctor you could get to perform this type of elective surgery would be some crazy nut that probably had his license to practice medicine revoked.

Not to mention you can't just drape Angelina Jolie's face over any old douchebags skull and expect them to look like Angelina Jolie.
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I agree and understand everything you say, but the fact is... there are so many people out there today even with all the info we still have, that go into docs offices saying I want Brittany Spears nose, or I want so and so's chin... even though in reality the doc can't do that. So feasibly I can see where some old coot with a lot of money could be shammed into giving a quack doc money for something like this. But, on the lighter side the plastic surgeons have accomplished something... and will perfect it. It looks as though they had a waiting period for the right donor to match her skin and cartilage. And she had a slim chance that it would work because her wounds were healing, and the skin and wounds on her face were retracting, so they weren't sure if it would work. She needed it, so she could function, speak, eat, etc.
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Have you read the thread???
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heavy risk of cancer and other deseases from the drugs u have to take its not exactly breast implants. though having your wife or g/f suddenly having angelina jolies face...well. that would be nice. creepy nice
 
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