Human Head Transplants Imminent

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Apparently we're 2 years away from a full human body transplant (or head transplant depending on how you look at this).

Heads Up

The thing that puzzles me is, if you are sick enough to need a whole new body from a recently dead donor, where's the gain? Presumably the donor either died of ill health themselves or was killed in an horrific accident.

Could this lead to a 21st century Burke & Hare, procuring beautiful bodies for the obscenely rich but sick?

All the same.....
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[Minty]

How 'fresh' should the donor body be? Finding a use for corpses could be of quite some benefit to myself. Intrigued, I am.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

An Italian doctor says it "could" happen in the next couple of year?

Top reporting Telegraph, that's a great source of information.

Until we have live in Futurama style jars, I'm not interested.

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[andyscooter]

so if I crashed and mangled just my head and they stuck another one on would I be me or the other person

or vice versa if I crashed and mangled my body but my head was ok and they attached someone elses body would I be me or them


and could they give a bloke a ladys body so he wouldn't have to get out of bed

failing that can I have someone tallers body as i'm a short arse
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[Minty]

I guess 'you' exist in the brain - ergo, where the brain goes, the 'person' goes.
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[Minty]

I'd have thunk that the just as big news here is that they feel they can repair severed spinal chords within 2 years?
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

What happens if you're a short white guy, but they only body they have available is a 6"5 body builder black guy?
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[monkeybiker]

Hasn't this been tried on monkeys but it didn't live long?

[ScaredyCat]

[DoohanFan]

They transplanted the head from one monkey body to another years ago. Just the essentials connected and spine not reconnected fully but...
The monkey lived for 9 days and screamed every moment of it.
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[Skudd]

Joking aside, I was wondering about all the work on spinal columns and how they are going to fix all hose. there are loads of people who could benefit from the spinal stuff, not the head bit, just basic spinal repairs.

What has changed in technology and skills that we can't put in place now?
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[yen_powell]

As we speak, someone is putting a reminder in their calendar for two years from now.

"Get Walt's head out and start running it under the tap."
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[oldpink]

I'll take a new body anyday, preferably young fit non smoker
wonder what would happen if you put a mans head on a womans body
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[Minty]

Well duh, he shuns society to sit at home and play with his breasts all day.
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