Head Transplant attempt soon. Would you? now with poll!

If they were reliable would you get a head transplant

  • Yes as long as the donor has a large johnson

    Votes: 11 52.4%
  • No I like my body the way it is.

    Votes: 6 28.6%
  • Yes if I could choose a different sex.

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Total voters
    21

Thebobo

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Jun 19, 2006
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26 weeks to go until the first head transplant attempt and it brings up all sort of questions. Would you? Do you think it will work? How can they attach all the nerves and lung functions? If eventually successful what will this lead to? Remember the first heart transplant think they guy lived only 18 days and was considered radical but now transplants are common place. This video explains the procedure.

 

tynopik

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Aug 10, 2004
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they're not actually going to do it, setting the date so far in advance just allows him more time to milk the publicity
 

Exterous

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Is this the one based on the procedure where they had to put down the animal trial subjects due to the pain and suffering?
 

Thebobo

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Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been busy it seems and another new report out from sciencealert.

The 'Head-Transplant' Surgeon Has Severed And Reconnected The Spinal Cords of 9 Mice

"First, he said he severed and then reconnected the spinal cord of a dog. Less than a year later, he published a paper detailing how he created a series of two-headed rodents.

Now, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero claims to have severed the spinal cords of a group of mice and then reattached them using a special solution he simply calls "glue".

Each of these experiments, Canvero claims, are small steps toward the goal of completing the world's first head transplant, a procedure that many experts in the field have called absurd and outlandish.

Despite numerous ethical and scientific obstacles, Canavero appears to be charging full-steam ahead with his animal experiments."

Full story
 

Exterous

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Now, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero claims to have severed the spinal cords of a group of mice and then reattached them using a special solution he simply calls "glue".

I have this mental image of the doctor bending over the lab rat with a big bottle of elmer's glue in his hand
 

WHAMPOM

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Feb 28, 2006
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26 weeks to go until the first head transplant attempt and it brings up all sort of questions. Would you? Do you think it will work? How can they attach all the nerves and lung functions? If eventually successful what will this lead to? Remember the first heart transplant think they guy lived only 18 days and was considered radical but now transplants are common place. This video explains the procedure.



AH! You must realllly mean "BODY" transplant.
 

Stopsignhank

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Only if Bones does it after he puts the thingy on his head.

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IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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What are we looking at here? I see the prop department pulled the volume and tuning knobs off every radio in the studio. There are some tubing connectors and a maybe a couple coax connectors. What else?
 

Sonikku

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Jun 23, 2005
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I say yes and voted option 3. Either way I see it, my pain would be at and end.
 

Red Squirrel

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May 24, 2003
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Wow what's with this thread everything is just jumping around like crazy, could not really read any of the comments. Some stupid script trying to run or something.

Anyway, I would not do it just for fun, but if I had some serious issue with my body like missing limbs or had serious cancer or something like that, then I would consider it but even then if it's not a life and death situation I'd be kind of weary. If it is life and death like cancer that is spreading super fast and killing all my organs, then may as well try it.

Maybe the next version of humans will be hot swap capable so they don't have to hard wire everything, then head swaps will be more reliable.
 

IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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Obligatory:

A man was waiting for his wife to give birth. The doctor came and informed the dad that his son was born without a torso, arms, or legs. The son was just a head!

But the dad loved his son and raised him as well as he could. Eighteen years later, the son was old enough for his first drink. The dad took him to a bar, tearfully told him he was proud of him, and ordered the biggest, strongest drink for his boy. With all the bar patrons looking on curiously, the boy took his first sip of alcohol.

Swoooop! A torso popped out!

The bar was dead silent, then burst into a whoop of joy. The father, shocked, begged his son to drink again. The patrons chanted, "Take another drink! Take another drink!" The bartender shook his head in dismay.

Swoooop! Two arms popped out!

The bar went wild. The father, crying and wailing, begged his son to drink again. The patrons chanted, "Take another drink! Take another drink!" But the bartender ignored the whole affair.

By this time, the boy was getting tipsy. With his new hands, he reached down, grabbed the drink, and guzzled the last of it.

Swoooop! Two legs popped out.

The bar was in chaos. The father wept with joy. The boy stood up on his new legs. He stumbled to the left. He stumbled to the right. Then he stumbled through the front door and into the street, where a truck ran him over.

The bar fell silent. The father moaned with grief. The bartender merely sighed and said, "He should have quit while he was a head."
 

Red Squirrel

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May 24, 2003
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We see these fiction movies of aliens abducting people and doing all sorts of crazy stuff, but really we're the aliens doing it to animals. That's nothing compared to some of the stuff P&G does. Let's keep pouring this highly corrosive liquid in a rabit's eyes to see how much it takes to blind it!". Some kind of compliance thing so not 100% their fault, the government (FDA I think?) does force some of that stuff.