Head transpalnts

[doggone]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37420905/the-surgeon-who-wants-to-perform-a-head-transplant-by-2017

Whose body would you choose?

[Tracey Suntan-King]

That would be a body transplant wouldn't it?
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[Chinaboy]

Depends on how useless the head donor's body is. Like the guy in the wheelchair who had a muscle wasting disorder.

[Chuffin Nora]

[MCN]

[Rogerborg]

[pepperami]

Anglina Jolie ????

When I was better and out of hospital, I would stand naked in front of the mirror all day
Mind you I would have to have a paper bag over my head as i wouldn`t want to see my face looking back at me, might need a couple of eye-holes though.

Weird or what?
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[TbirdX]

Cheryl Cole (or whatever her last name is this week)

Firstly, so I could finger myself and secondly so I'd never have to listen to her voice again.
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[RhynoCZ]

Alright, alright, let's say they can perform such a party trick. What about the body rejecting the head and vice versa? When your body's imune system rejects a liver transplant, for instance, it takes quite some time before you have a real problem (hours, days). That could happen even if you are on the immuno suppressives, which results in another, immediate, surgery. I'm no expert but, finding a liver donor and the actual transplantation of it seems much easier task then getting a new head or body.
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[Tamsin]

with a face like mine, it wouldn't matter...... I still wouldn't get laid

[M.C]

Rainpal has a medical license now? My understanding's once the spinal cord's severed that's it. I know there was a knife attack victim who regained some movement after being paralysed (through a technique using nose cells or something), but that took a lot of physical therapy to reach that point (years I think).

Further more I believe face transplant patients don't live all that long, with the anti-rejection medication you're a lot more susceptible to catching something nasty and dying.

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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Give me the Terminators body. The one from Terminator 2 please.
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[Rogerborg]

[hellkat]

Go on then.

Kelly Brook, I reckon.

But that is mainly because her figure probably resembles what mine would (could/should) have looked like if I had looked after myself and not been such a piglet/lazy mare.

Although her boobs are a little TOO big for even my personal taste

But that's talking about a figure, not a body. Because for all we know, the bodies we might proclaim to want might have all kinds of things wrong with them.

How, for example, am I to know whether KB has some sort of hideous internal problems that I wouldn't want. For all we know, she might have heart failure, epilepsy or endometriosis in her future, no ta.
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[hellkat]

[RhynoCZ]

[pepperami]

[Chinaboy]

[RhynoCZ]

[lihp]

Pure science fiction. They can't even repair the spinal cord at the moment. And he reckons that is possible in a year

Repair of the spinal cord would be a massive step allowing for treatment of paralysis. Until that happens, a full body transplant isn't happening.
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[MCN]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[hellkat]

[Rogerborg]

[M.C]