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[norm9]

Innovation is through steps and not leaps.

 

[boiled goose]

I guess. There would still be a very sizable amount of people unwilling to donate their bodies. Probably less than half of those willing to donate organs. A lot of people see their bodies as their self.

Huh? When people donate their organs it's everything usually. Skin, eyes, etc.

The body is nothing more than a collection of organs.

 

[RecRoulette]

Well done.

 

[XGRaViSmOrSX]

I guess. There would still be a very sizable amount of people unwilling to donate their bodies. Probably less than half of those willing to donate organs. A lot of people see their bodies as their self.

I agree, the amount would be small but to say that only people who would do are in it for monetary gain is silly. Personally I wouldn't give a shit. My body is just meat when i'm dead, use it all up.

 

[Alanood]

What the hell? How is his/her body functioning with two heads?

 

[Out_Of_Ammo]

If I die suddenly I am happy for my head to get stapled onto a fit young lady.

How about the reverse?

 

[GYODX]

Thousands of rats are killed with inducing gene therapy that produces horrific results every year and this is where we draw the line... Okay.

This. The backlash here is ridiculous.

 

[StayDead]

RAT... STAND?

 

[UrbanRats]

Horrific animal abuse.

As opposed to giving rat cancer and other horrible shit needed for medical and scientific testing?
I guess the benefits of this particular experiment are dubious, but it's not like medical research on animals is a walk in the park otherwise.

 

[Shambalakan]

We all know there are lots of horrible creatures in labs, but they don't tell us about them!

 

[DerangedHermit]

Dude fuck that..

C'mon, imagine if it was a two-headed cat .... double the lunch for you!

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

The possible application is saving someones life who has severe bodily trauma.

The point is someone may be willing to donate their entire body postmortem which could then be used to attach the previous person's head.

Are we going to have poor people sell their bodies? No. That's just ridiculous, I don't know where you go that from.

no but there could be scenarios where in poor countries people could be kidnapped by criminal gangs and killed for their bodies.

 

[eot]

I seize this opportunity to link one of the greatest Gaf threads of all time.

Thank you for reminding me of that thread

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

You all won't be complaining when we have rats with six human arms and three heads doing our laundry.

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

Gonna need extra strong trap to snap two necks.

 

[Rentahamster]

I read this as "Italian surgeon gives a rat some head".

 

[Any Questions]

Ace the point of this madman's efforts. Wack job nutter with a scalpel. Wouldn't surprise me if he has dead animals in his freezer for afternoon snacks.

 

[CaptainCook]

This is both amazing and horrifying...mostly horrifying

 

[Adam_Vania]

We all know there are lots of horrible creatures in labs, but they don't tell us about them!

i was at a party once and met somebody who told me they experimented on monkeys. they told me where the lab was and it was down the street from where i went to elementary school. so creepy.

between this and the story earlier this year about them growing human organs inside of pig fetuses, the future is going to be terrifying as fuck. imagine something goes wrong. just imagine the kind of unregulated black market surgery messing w this stuff rn.

 

[Fulminator]

Why

 

[Tempy]

Well, he has to do these kinds of procedures on animals first before he starts on humans, which is the end goal. Of course the doctor's scientific methods are...iffy - https://arstechnica.com/science/201...-coming-in-3-years-outlandish-surgeon-claims/

 

[Machine]

 

[Kayhan]

 

[PJV3]

How about the reverse?

It will be disappointing for the extra head to be honest. I might like the extra company if I want a chat.

 

[TheMan]

whoever ends up submitting themselves for this procedure is going to die MISERABLY

 

[UrbanRats]

whoever ends up submitting themselves for this procedure is going to die MISERABLY

Or live like a GOD!

 

[t26]

no but there could be scenarios where in poor countries people could be kidnapped by criminal gangs and killed for their bodies.

So like people kidnapped for their kidney?

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp

 

[AppleSeason]

I'd rather get two dicks instead. But four balls would be annoying as heck.

 

[clemenx]

Imagine all the sort of things would've been tested by now if ethics weren't a thing.

(I'm glad they are a thing)

 

[Westbahnhof]

Real life Zaphod by 2020?

 

[Hale-XF11]

I came in here wanting to see a picture and now I really wish I hadn't.

Damn my curiosity!

 

[jts]

Can't help but feel sadness looking at the picture. Could do without. Hope it's worth it, though.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

The heads have this miserable look to their faces.

 

[Syder]

is the attached head alive?

 

[D i Z]

That's some Doctor Moreau type shit. Nah, b.


This doesn't lead to greatness. Only misery.

Spoiler

 

[MUnited83]

i was at a party once and met somebody who told me they experimented on monkeys. they told me where the lab was and it was down the street from where i went to elementary school. so creepy.

between this and the story earlier this year about them growing human organs inside of pig fetuses, the future is going to be terrifying as fuck. imagine something goes wrong. just imagine the kind of unregulated black market surgery messing w this stuff rn.

The other way around, it's going to be fucking awesome as people will have more easy access to better treatment quickly.
"Unregulated black market"? Breh it cannot get worse than what it is right now with people literally trafficking people's bodies or even stealing organs from living humans.

 

[Yohane]

That's kinda creepy

 

[Taramoor]

 

[Insane Metal]

This x 1000.

 

[-shadow-]

?

 

[Adam_Vania]

The other way around, it's going to be fucking awesome as people will have more easy access to better treatment quickly.

yay good news for the super rich. once they have revolutionary life-saving tech you don't think they are going to give first shot to the poors do you?

"Unregulated black market"? Breh it cannot get worse than what it is right now with people literally trafficking people's bodies or even stealing organs from living humans.

exactly. there is already horrible shit. take body trafficking and add in morally ambiguous crazy surgeons like this, put two and two together. without doubt it is going to fall into the wrong hands.

 

[IronRaven]

That image is way worse than what I was imagining.

 

[Baroquemantic]

Full Metal? God that was such a sad, fucked up situation.

 

[MsKrisp]

For the record, they've done that to a dog before.

And also transplanted a monkey head on another monkey body. Awful.

Yeah, in the 1960s Vladimir Demikhov did the dog thing.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

Wha..

I don't.....I can't......WHY?

 

[Obscura]

The heads have this miserable look to their faces.

They did just have major surgery and are almost definitely drugged.

 

[Kurtofan]

Thousands of rats are killed with inducing gene therapy that produces horrific results every year and this is where we draw the line... Okay.

i mean gene therapy at least has a benefit for people

Though i guess if it can help in transplant surgeries and the like....

 

[brochiller]

i mean gene therapy at least has a benefit for people

Though i guess if it can help in transplant surgeries and the like....

Im not sure what this doctors end goal is but reattaching a severed spine could certainly have a huge benefit for some people.

 

[PSqueak]

whoever ends up submitting themselves for this procedure is going to die MISERABLY

If someone submits to this procedure they're probably already dying of something and this their last chance.