Russian man volunteers for first human head transplant

[Xirafel]

Russian man volunteers for first human head transplant

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-man-volunteers-for-first-human-head-transplant/

CBS News/By Ashley Welch   August 29, 2016, 6:47 PM

It looks like almost certain death to me, if they actually go through with it.

[AnonyMs]

Yeah, I'd agree. Doesn't mean I wouldn't do it in that guy's circumstances though. Pity they didn't ask him what he thought his chances were.

[Emily R]

A thought for the day

Fast forward 20 or 50 years...  Science Fiction at this time and maybe even then....

If they could transfer just the brain and not the whole head?  If that were possible and cost was reasonable would you switch brain with another body of the opposite gender?  it would not have to be a cadaver, just someone desiring to be of your existing gender.

Interesting proposition....



Emily

[Deborah]

I would do it if they could clone me with the adjustment of changed DNA. 

It seems weird going into someone else's body.

[Michelle_P]

Frankly, he's looking for medically sanctioned suicide.  The odds are massively against this working, or the result even remaining alive for any length of time.

[KathyLauren]

A though for the day

Fast forward 20 or 50 years...  Science Fiction at this time and maybe even then....

If they could transfer just the brain and not the whole head?  If that were possible and cost was reasonable would you switch brain with another body of the opposite gender?  it would not have to be a cadaver, just someone desiring to be of your existing gender.

Interesting proposition....



Emily

That possibility was explored by Robert Heinlein in "I Will Fear No Evil".

[Devlyn]

I would do it if they could clone me with the adjustment of changed DNA. 

It seems weird going into someone else's body.

Must...resist...temptation...to...use...sexual...innuendo.......ah, crap, failed! 

[Xirafel]

I would do it if they could clone me with the adjustment of changed DNA. 

It seems weird going into someone else's body.

I would go for it, if it's safe and the government doesn't decide to invent 50 ways to mess me around. They love doing that. Lovely people. Useless politicians.

Of course, a clone of myself would be optimal. Hopefully, they could clone it without it's own brain, or it would be extremely cruel.
Doubt it would be approved in the Western World, might have to go to China or something. Ethics and stuff.

[stephaniec]

Well. I'd be able to get rid of my arthritis

[Drexy/Drex]

This was explored by a doctor wnite  in the 70,s  he transplanted  a mon keys head to a other body  it worked well enough that the newly transplanted head bit him .....very ghoulish he even worked out how to keep a brain alive with out the body ...creepy

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/dr-robert-white-transplanted-first-monkey-head

So no doubt they will succeed  in this latest endeavor 

personally i favor using your own cells to grown a new body and downloading into it but thats a way off 

[Mohini]

Or he could simply die and go into another body seamlessly.  No surgery required, but it would require a suicide...

[Xirafel]

Or he could simply die and go into another body seamlessly.  No surgery required, but it would require a suicide...

Depends on the religion or the presence of one.

If they could transfer just the brain and not the whole head?  If that were possible and cost was reasonable would you switch brain with another body of the opposite gender?  it would not have to be a cadaver, just someone desiring to be of your existing gender.

Hopefully, it won't cost tens of millions of dollars, although I wouldn't want them to cut corners or they'll send me on a trip to the afterlife. Maybe, I should aspire to be a billionaire.

It really depends. I personally would want to look young rather than old and who knows how many surgical /hormonal modifications the other person has made to themselves in their quest to become their ideal self.

I'm sure all the billionaires would probably snatch up the young beautiful bodies.

Transplanting the head and then the face / hair could work like transplanting the brain? Maybe. I don't know how this works. Otherwise, you're severing even more nerves which you presumably have to re-attach.

Apparently, I'm not a bot anymore. Hooray. 

[Amy1988]

A thought for the day

Fast forward 20 or 50 years...  Science Fiction at this time and maybe even then....

If they could transfer just the brain and not the whole head?  If that were possible and cost was reasonable would you switch brain with another body of the opposite gender?  it would not have to be a cadaver, just someone desiring to be of your existing gender.

Interesting proposition....



Emily

I absolutely would.  Like my brain in Emily Blunt's body.  Well maybe her clone because I wouldn't want anything to happen to her.  I adore Emily Blunt.

[Shinnok]

I dunno..this seems to be taking things too far as for playing God. There's just some things (I believe) maybe shouldn't be done. If a brain or head could successfully be transferred to another body then wouldn't that be a key to immortality? Unless you have brain damage of course but...does the brain age?

Sorry if this sounds dumb I'm just thinking outloud

[Drexy/Drex]

Yes I would think the brain ages however it would not necessarily make one imortal
As the law of averages dictates that eventually one would either get ill or get hit by a bus or eaten by tigers or something
That might take 100 or 500 years or less or more
Scientific research has found that there is a gene which acts as a sort of switch that causes the body to gradually make inferior copies of the cells....that is what ageing is
Eventually the replicate of the cells become so bad the  body ceases to function. ..its a built in self destruct mechanism ...so if through gene therapy this switch could be negated ...potential immortality ensures until the space plane crash or tigers scenario. ..so really there is no immortality for a physical body in the end
But how about this one of the rockerefellers family at 100 yrs old recently
Had his 6th heart transplant despite not meeting any of the medical qualifications you or I would have to pass ...shows what money can do so regarding immortality I think it will be the top 1% who will have access to any such technology. ...of they dont have already

[Shinnok]

That's what I had thought. I think humanity is far from immortality imo