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First human head transplant could happen in two years
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chicagocubsfan
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Nice. I can't wait to play in the NBA at the age of 90.
soxinthebox
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So would this devolve into old rich people paying poor young people to switch bodies?
I suppose it's cool, but I don't see how such a procedure would be practical. I find transplant surgery depressingly insufficient to begin with. Yes, they do extend the lives of people that would otherwise die, but they will always have to fight a battle against their immune system, which eventually takes its toll.
Growing organs is definitely the way to go. Much more funding needs to go into that.
Growing organs is definitely the way to go. Much more funding needs to go into that.
That's why the would-be black market surrounding this sounds so scary.
Unknown One
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Their brains will still rot.
Doesn't stop their heads from aging regardless how healthy the body is.
Pegosaurus
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this scares the fuck out of me
other people can do it if they want though
other people can do it if they want though
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Deleted member 80556
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I really don't know what to think of this.
BreezyLimbo
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Uuuuhhhhhhhhhhh
Nope. Just nope.
Nope. Just nope.
E-Cat
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Yeah, irrational beliefs can be scary.
More like the poor, homeless or smuggled getting bodies stolen to sell to rich. Crazy underground market when this matures I bet.
BreezyLimbo
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Ayup, this is what I'm worried about. It's not going to be a cheap surgery, and the fact that they need a set up of nearly freezing both bodies to low temperatures means that they can't just start using any corpse or person that died due to an accident, so it'd have to be donors(Who the hell would give up their body).
It's really...foolish. Unless they can use recently dead corpses(Which again, they need to cool down a living body from a donor to low temperatures in order to do the surgery) which would be near impossible because rigor mortis starts setting in, then the only other option would be to use mentally ill people because....I dunno.
Unless they start creating young bodies through science...but in the end it'll still be only the rich having access to this. I do not like this at all, and not for religious reasons.
Just_myles
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We are going to call it Brandoing or Dioing?
Rose could use one of these. ._.
Lastgengamer
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This is crazy... What might happen if the heads and bodies were switched of both people?
Would you become me and I became you?
Would you become me and I became you?
M0nochromatic
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"Well I"m looking for a 180cm Englishman who was ripped and has a star shaped birthmark on his shoulder blade. "
"Ahh yes, hold on one sec. William! we've got a Dio over here!"
"Ahh yes, hold on one sec. William! we've got a Dio over here!"
Bluekaveli
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Ah............ A!
CrunchyFrog
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The ethical issues this raises in practice are astronomical. Body harvesting, human identity, this isn't some Frankenstein shit you just jump into. Not to mention the ability to cleanly fuse spinal cords is downright insane at best. Slightly misplace the spinal cord at a micrometer or two off, woops you've misaligned the fibres of the vagus nerve, your heart won't start, like, ever.
hockeypuck
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There are plenty. Anything that causes brain death but not cardiac death. A gunshot wound crossing both hemispheres but leaving the brainstem intact is the perfect body specimen, provided that the person is intubated quickly enough. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of self-inflicted examples like that occurring every year in the U.S.
A successful liver transplant can last 10+ years. The transplanted liver cells regenerate to become host liver cells and it is routine for successful transplant recipients to taper down their immunosuppression by a lot.
Mammoth Jones
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Nothing wrong with that. I consent!
Tim the Wiz
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DOROTHY GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALE
Yeah. They're better having than not. Some people can live a fairly long life. The chances of the transplanted organ failing though becomes greater every year.
And immunosuppressant drugs have their own set of risks to them.
If or when we get to the point where growing organs on mass is feasible, all those issues disappear.
Unknown Soldier
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So they're going to just mash the spinal cords together and hope that it works? Really?
Like others said, how the hell are you going to get bodies from? Not many people suffer from illness or inury that leaves the body perfectly intact.
Unless they plan to make use of prisoners for that, but then you have the problem of people convicted harshly for crimes because the judge was paid by someone who set their eyes on a body.
Unless they plan to make use of prisoners for that, but then you have the problem of people convicted harshly for crimes because the judge was paid by someone who set their eyes on a body.
The cells of the head would age at its own pace.
E-Cat
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Fixed.
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