First full body transplant to happen...

[Lillefix]

We are never going to get ahead in life if we shy away from untested procedures.

Makes me think about this scene:


Link to video.

 

[Zelig]

Is rather support research into alternatives.

Well to figure out body transplants, we first have to figure out a cure for spinal injuries anyway.

 

[El_Machinae]

Jeez. How many times did I correct autocorrect there? "I'd", not "is".

We do need a cure for spinal cord injuries. Very much so. The current system is unacceptable.

 

[Kozmos]

@Lille: I forgot how bad that movie is.

We're making good progress on that last I heard. Spinal cord injuries that is.

 

[Narz]

I don't really understand why this thread is here.

to the th power

This is the most interesting/cool/amazing scientific event in my lifetime (far & away, what else could even be close?).

I heard about this last weekend & was amazed.

The ramifications are huge.

Of course this probably won't work & probably won't work for decades, if they can't even fix Christopher Reeves how on Earth can they screw on a new head to a dead body & expect success?

Still, imagine if you could live forever with new bodies!! You could even be a chick if you wanted to (albeit probably an old lady, unless a nice hawt young girl was killed in a car crash with head trauma).

The guy who told me about this told me "The first thing I'd do is check the pecker on the dude" (the cadaver that would soon become his vessel).

 

[Kyriakos]

^It would also create a decently lucrative industry of better testing (artificially inducing) of erections in cadavers.

 

[Borachio]

I remember some South African researcher severed a monkey's head from its body and managed to keep it alive and functioning for quite some time. I recall seeing a video of it, and the monkey's head looked decidedly nervous and uncomfortable, but it was definitely alive.

Golly! I didn't expect to find it on youtube, but I have!

Here's the link, if you really must:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwkkmsoo4a4

It amazingly dates back to the 70s.

 

[Narz]

Not sure I want to watch a tortured monkey's head.

Now I'm thinking about Futurama.

 

[sophie]

to the th power

This is the most interesting/cool/amazing scientific event in my lifetime (far & away, what else could even be close?).

I heard about this last weekend & was amazed.

The ramifications are huge.

Of course this probably won't work & probably won't work for decades, if they can't even fix Christopher Reeves how on Earth can they screw on a new head to a dead body & expect success?

Still, imagine if you could live forever with new bodies!! You could even be a chick if you wanted to (albeit probably an old lady, unless a nice hawt young girl was killed in a car crash with head trauma).

The guy who told me about this told me "The first thing I'd do is check the pecker on the dude" (the cadaver that would soon become his vessel).

Well yeah it's a cool news story. But what is there to discuss?

 

[Narz]

Thats its cool & some one can bump this when it doesn't work & then again in 10 years if/when it does.

 

[Yeekim]

Well yeah it's a cool news story. But what is there to discuss?

I, for one, am not quite sure whether I'd even wish to live as a head attached to somebody else's body and paralyzed from the neck down...

 

[Future PM]

Not sure I want to watch a tortured monkey's head.

Now I'm thinking about Futurama.

So Obama will just periodically swap bodies to maintain his grip on the Presidency then?

 

[CavLancer]

If the result is either success or death, sure, why not? ...and if one cuts off someone's head death has universally been the result, just ask the French. Its a good option because its not suicide, the patient has the hope of a better life.

 

[Borachio]

Heads you win...

... no wait, that's not right.

 

[CavLancer]

Quit while you're a head?

 

[Future PM]

The body of this thread has certainly changed since I first came across it.