How weird is this??

[Zeus]

Italian doctor Sergio Canavero plans to put one man's head onto another man's body. He already has the "head " - and plans to put it on a body by 2017.

A Russian computer programmer called Valeri Spiridonov, who suffers from a spinal muscular atrophy condition, Werdnig-Hoffman disease, is expected to donate the head. Werdnig-Hoffman disease is often terminal.

The body will likely belong to a brain-dead individual who is medically alive, but otherwise "dead."

See http://www.dw.de/divisive-surgeon-plans-to-transplant-a-russians-head/a-18467572

Of course, this raises some interesting questions. For example...Who is now the "person?" Who's alive now, legally? Is it the brain? Or is it the body? Who survives, the donor or the recipient?



I suppose for people like professor Stephen Hawking, this procedure would be brilliant.

 

[Nomansland]

Brain dead to me means it's just meat the consciousness the person is gone. So in this case the person goes with the head. That's why Alzheimer's is so bad it's the real living dead.

 

[bushseeker]

Old news. This was first done in the 1700s

 

[Dallas]

All I can imagine is the incredible amount of pain associate with the surgery of having a whole head reattached to a body. Sounds like a nightmare.

 

[Zeus]

All I can imagine is the incredible amount of pain associate with the surgery of having a whole head reattached to a body. Sounds like a nightmare.

Maybe so - but take Professor Stephen Hawking for example. He has an absolutely brilliant mind but his body is to all intense and purposes "dead".

I would imagine a bloke like that might be a candidate for such surgery.

 

[Max Cherry]

I've read about this, but it seems a bit far fetched to me. The surgeon claims to have some sort of magical paste he has developed for joining the spinal chord back together - something the rest of the science world doesn't know anything about.

Apart from that, other leading professionals in the field seem to think we are more likely 100 years away from a successful head transplant. Apparently the different chemicals and signals the brain would be receiving from the new body could bring on a level of insanity never witnessed before.

Has the potential to have an awesome horror movie made out of this story though!

Also I found this...

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/head-transplant-hoax-2015-4

 

[bushseeker]

All I can imagine is the incredible amount of pain associate with the surgery of having a whole head reattached to a body. Sounds like a nightmare.

Nope... just a headache

 

[bushseeker]

Realistically as said its years away.. medical science still cannot repair a severed spinal cord so while the head may survive on the body that would be it with modern technology

 

[Happy2]

When the scientists can cure the Common Cold I will, maybe, start to believe they can do something so fanciful as a head transplant

 

[Dallas]

Nope... just a headache

Don't you think there would be immense pain associated that level of surgery given all the bones and nerves? A finger etc can be really painful if its sewn back on but I can only imagine a whole head... and then it's not the original one so the body and head would be trying to reject each other.

 

[Dallas]

Maybe so - but take Professor Stephen Hawking for example. He has an absolutely brilliant mind but his body is to all intense and purposes "dead".

I would imagine a bloke like that might be a candidate for such surgery.

That's true of course.. but putting his head on a new body - both body and head have feelings... I still think the level of pain would be incredible.. then there would be the issue of rejection and the pain associated with that.

 

[Buk]

Really gives a whole new meaning to the term, "giving head", methinks.

 

[Zeus]

That's true of course.. but putting his head on a new body - both body and head have feelings... I still think the level of pain would be incredible.. then there would be the issue of rejection and the pain associated with that.

Well I suppose that also gives a new meaning to "pain in the neck"

 

[Dallas]

Well I suppose that also gives a new meaning to "pain in the neck"

Hehe yes that's true!

 

[homer]

I can imagine body parts falling off because the head reject them.

 

[svengali]

That "woop woop" sound is my bulls###t - o - meter going off the end of its scale.......

It wasn't published on April 1st, was it?

 

[chibi]

I can imagine body parts falling off because the head reject them.

There's something very Monty Python about that!