Human head transplant doctor will use VR to prepare patients for new body

[pdarling]

I'm sorry, WHO did they say 'donated' the body? How do you know what will be available when? Several somethings seem wrong here. And What a headache!! Can you imagine your head thawing? Come on. Not the mention all the other concerns that seem to be mere gnats flying around in the face of "I know I can, I know I can". But, maybe you shouldn't??

 

[beemerw]

Where does a viable body come from that does not have damage..that will correctly mesh..bodies reject kidney transplants, reject different things so we are going to experiment with lives now because we literally SEVERED a head of one experimental animal for another and if this fails the doctor will move on to bigger animals..like cats and dogs..to make it more viable to try to make it successful..don't you get it..there are other innovations to walk for people who cannot walk if that is the reasoning..a cure for a disease maybe..a better type of therapy or muscular thing..or even brain surgery innovation to find where ambulation takes place..but we are promoting changing heads? so no cure for cancer but money for this..there is something wrong..right..think about it..

 

[ForgottenLegion]

well you could volunteer and zee for yourself why it will never be possible or feasible and then you will see the dark ages for long time.

"it will never be possible or feasible".

What a closed minded attitude.
I think you'll find practically anything we can imagine is possible to achieve with advances in science.

 

[LoneGraffitist]

Am I the first one to be reminded of Heinlein's "I will fear no evil"? It might be "easier" to transplant just the brain.

 

[DontBStupid]

Human experimentation is unethical.

First of all this is a body transplant.

Secondly I absolutely hate the negativity surrounding this procedure. How will this ever become a reality if we do not try?
Unfortunately as this is the first attempt at such a complicated operation there's so many things that can go wrong. The odds are against him.

Now I'm sure they'll be able to attach the head to the body and re-establish circulation but I do not think the spinal cord will be able to be reconnected. He may live for a few days with a new body but just like the mice he won't lost long unfortunately.

I hope this does further our understanding and I really hope this one attempt is not the first and last one.

If cloning was pursued this procedure would have a much higher chance of success as the body would not reject the head. Imagine being able to grow a replacement body parts. That's the sort of science we're missing due to overzealous ethics.

Maybe one day we'll step out from the dark ages.

 

[DelJo63]

"it will never be possible or feasible".

What a closed minded attitude.
I think you'll find practically anything we can imagine is possible to achieve with advances in science.

Naive and credulous

 

[captaincranky]

Naive and credulous

This is what the world has been waiting for, yet another remake of "Frankenstein"!

 

[DelJo63]

This is what the world has been waiting for, yet another remake of "Frankenstein"!

Giggle; Read the book, it's far more thought provoking than the Hollywood presentation