Man volunteers to undergo first human head transplant (1 Viewer)

[Wingnut]

Http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/russian-man-volunteers-to-undergo-controversial-36-hour-head-transplant-procedure/

A 30 year-old Russian man has volunteered to undergo a 36-hour head transplant in a last-ditch effort to beat a rare disease causing his muscles to shrink, Huffington Post UK reported.

Valery Spiridinov is hoping that Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon saying the procedure is possible, will be able to operate on him. Spiridinov currently suffers from Type I spinal muscular atrophy, a condition formerly known as Werdnig-Hoffmann disease.

The two men have not met in person, but have discussed the procedure for the past two years via the online platform Skype.

I need help every day, any minute, Spiridinov said. I am now 30 years old, although people rarely live to more than 20 with this disease.

Cavanero outlined the procedure in a paper published in the journal Surgical Neurology International this past February. The New Scientist reported that he believes it could be achieved by 2017.

According to Cavanero, the procedure would take 36 hours and a medical team of 150 to complete. He is seeking to raise about 7.5 million pounds, or just over $11 million, to cover the cost of the surgery.

This technology is similar to the first man to walk in space, Spiridinov said. This is because in the future it will help thousands of people who are in an even more deplorable state than I am.

Cavanero stated in his paper that he would remove the patients head from their body via a clean cut to their spinal column before attaching it to a living donors body. The spinal column would then be injected with polyethylene glycol, a polymer that he said would allow cells in fat membranes to come together. Cavanero and his team would then use electrodes to stimulate nerve connections between the patients new head and their body, a process that would require the patient to lay in an induced coma for several weeks.

The procedure has drawn skepticism from the American Association for Neurological Surgeons; the groups president-elect, Hunt Batjer, said, I would not wish this on anyone. I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death

 

[AAABatteries]

Sad to say but it seems certain that the guy will die but hopefully they will learn a lot from this and maybe one day something like this could be possible.

 

[Parrothead]

dude is ahead of the curve

 

[msommer]

This sounds like a Russian version of Nigerian scam mails

I'm dying and want to cut off my head and put it on another body.

Send me money

 

[MC Gas Money]

Im currently taking offers for mine

 

[joffer]

Ron Jeremy available?

 

[bigmarc27]

Why $11 Million? You'd think they do it pro bono for all the pub it's getting especially if it works. What could possibly cost that much assuming they're just taking a cadaver body? Maybe this doc is the best scam artist of all time - "hey buddy, you give me $11M and I'll out your head onto a new body. I promise!"

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Pretty sure this is a body transplant not a head transplant.

 

[trogg78]

Start hiding bodies.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Pretty sure this is a body transplant not a head transplant.

First thing I thought too.

 

[PatsWillWin]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

 

[Juxtatarot]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

You can have a head start.

 

[Flying V]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

You can have a head start.

I wouldn't be sticking my neck out for him.

 

[Snoopy]

How many of you would have the backbone to do it?

 

[Hawks64]

Pretty sure this is a body transplant not a head transplant.

This guy knows things.

 

[Rayderr]

"Well, we got good news and we got bad news. First the good news. The transplant the success. The bad news, You're now a 50 year old overweight woman."

 

[Leroy Hoard]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

You can have a head start.

I wouldn't be sticking my neck out for him.

"But Doc, all I wanted was a little head!"

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Man looks in mirror after operation.

"Oh crap! They gave me Joan Rivers!"

 

[Fat Nick]

I think the Russians got this to work with dogs in the 50s. The Cold War was a crazy time.

I'm pretty sure by "work" they mean the body supported the head for a while, but it died within a day or two. If so, then yeah...I guess it "worked."

 

[Fat Nick]

The crazy part is what this means if it works. It's pretty messed up what the repercussions are. Any rich dude with $11mil to spare can live forever. Assuming he trades bodies every 50 years, Bill Gates can live on for 360,000 years just on the cash he has in the bank today.

Where will transplant bodies come from? Will billionaires offer up cash for bodies of people that will agree to donate to them after living it up for a few years on the rich guy's dime?

Unless something goes wrong in your brain...anuerysm or something. That's not the body's fault.

I guess what I think of is that if you've got a healthy body, you can donate organs to sick people and probably give 10+ people relatively normal lives with your functioning organs...OR...you can let this one guy play around and see if he can make this guy live. I think this is successful if the guy lives a few more days...But there's no way he'll live as many days as someone who may have gotten that body's kidney or liver or heart for example.

Just short-sighted. Give up a whole body instead of using the organs to save many others.

 

[NCCommish]

Every time I see a story about head transplants I always think of Futurama and the heads in jars.

 

[Rayderr]

The crazy part is what this means if it works. It's pretty messed up what the repercussions are. Any rich dude with $11mil to spare can live forever. Assuming he trades bodies every 50 years, Bill Gates can live on for 360,000 years just on the cash he has in the bank today.

Where will transplant bodies come from? Will billionaires offer up cash for bodies of people that will agree to donate to them after living it up for a few years on the rich guy's dime?

gotta think Alzheimers or dementia would set in at some point. Can't imagine the brain can go more than a couple hundred years.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Why, if it isn't my old friend, Mr. McGreg. With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

Parrothead started 8 posts prior to yours.

 

[UOFI_316]

Cavanero stated in his paper that he would remove the patients head from their body via a clean cut to their spinal column before attaching it to a living donors body.

How do you convince someone to be a living body donor?

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Cavanero stated in his paper that he would remove the patients head from their body via a clean cut to their spinal column before attaching it to a living donors body.

How do you convince someone to be a living body donor?

Hey dumb ### we have no use for your head but we sure would like your body.

 

[Parrothead]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

Parrothead started 8 posts prior to yours.

I was ahead of the pack

 

[Rayderr]

Cavanero stated in his paper that he would remove the patients head from their body via a clean cut to their spinal column before attaching it to a living donors body.

How do you convince someone to be a living body donor?

I'm guessing the donor bodies would be from the Terry Schiavo's of the world.

 

[MikeIke]

Cavanero stated in his paper that he would remove the patients head from their body via a clean cut to their spinal column before attaching it to a living donors body.

How do you convince someone to be a living body donor?

That caught my eye, as well. Unless they're talking about making a two-headed man?

 

[spOOfy]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

Parrothead started 8 posts prior to yours.

I was ahead of the pack

go to the head of the class, young man!

 

[trogg78]

When do we start the lame/awesome puns?

Parrothead started 8 posts prior to yours.

I was ahead of the pack

You'll have that Parrotbody in no time.

 

[Wingnut]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

Kinda takes "the stranger" to a whole new level.And would it make me gay?

 

[trogg78]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

Kinda takes "the stranger" to a whole new level.And would it make me gay?

What makes a person Gay? The head or the body?

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

Kinda takes "the stranger" to a whole new level.And would it make me gay?

What makes a person Gay? The head or the body?

Hmmm...in your head, you'd be jerking off another guy. Yet, the hand you're using would be attached to the same body an the weiner.

I guess it's a push...or a pull.

 

[captain_amazing]

Where will transplant bodies come from?

ISIS?

 

[El Floppo]

Cavanero stated in his paper that he would remove the patients head from their body via a clean cut to their spinal column before attaching it to a living donors body.

How do you convince someone to be a living body donor?

get another living body donor for that head.

it's one giant ruskie ponzie scheme... just hope you get in before they run out of bodies.

 

[Ilov80s]

I see a major future business here. Are you a good lucking but poor and stuck in a hopeless 3rd world economy? Want to provide a better life for your family? Trade heads with some ugly rich guy for a profit.

 

[Papa Georgio]

At least now he has a chance to be the head of a major corporation... cue gong noise

 

[Snoopy]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

Kinda takes "the stranger" to a whole new level.And would it make me gay?

What if your new body is of the opposite gender?

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

Kinda takes "the stranger" to a whole new level.And would it make me gay?

What if your new body is of the opposite gender?

Dear Penthouse:

Jackpot.

 

[Flying V]

Man looks in mirror after operation.

"Oh crap! They gave me Joan Rivers!"

At least it wasn't Abby Normal.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The weirdest part would be masturbating for the first time after recovering from the surgery. Think about that for a minute

Kinda takes "the stranger" to a whole new level.And would it make me gay?

What if your new body is of the opposite gender?

I might never leave the house.

 

[Galileo]

It has been announced that the procedure is scheduled for December of 2017. http://www.iflscience.com/human-head-transplant

 

[madzff]

The crazy part is what this means if it works. It's pretty messed up what the repercussions are. Any rich dude with $11mil to spare can live forever. Assuming he trades bodies every 50 years, Bill Gates can live on for 360,000 years just on the cash he has in the bank today.

Where will transplant bodies come from? Will billionaires offer up cash for bodies of people that will agree to donate to them after living it up for a few years on the rich guy's dime?

Unless something goes wrong in your brain...anuerysm or something. That's not the body's fault.

I guess what I think of is that if you've got a healthy body, you can donate organs to sick people and probably give 10+ people relatively normal lives with your functioning organs...OR...you can let this one guy play around and see if he can make this guy live. I think this is successful if the guy lives a few more days...But there's no way he'll live as many days as someone who may have gotten that body's kidney or liver or heart for example.

Just short-sighted. Give up a whole body instead of using the organs to save many others.

Doesn't anyone read EC comics or watch Tales from the Crypt? Once you put your old brain into a new body, either the woman you pine after will switch her allegiances because you are too poor ($11 million in this case), or you'll be framed for a crime the younger body committed prior to the transplant.

 

[ShamrockPride]

My question is in the article it stated a living donor...which would mean a living body. Where do you get a living body with no head? Wouldn't really be worth it unless the body was in a good, prime physical state, so it's not like you could take an old person on their deathbed's body.

 

[Rayderr]

My question is in the article it stated a living donor...which would mean a living body. Where do you get a living body with no head? Wouldn't really be worth it unless the body was in a good, prime physical state, so it's not like you could take an old person on their deathbed's body.

ebay

 

[El Floppo]

My question is in the article it stated a living donor...which would mean a living body. Where do you get a living body with no head? Wouldn't really be worth it unless the body was in a good, prime physical state, so it's not like you could take an old person on their deathbed's body.

I assumed somebody braindead, on life support. like Christo

 

[CBusAlex]

My question is in the article it stated a living donor...which would mean a living body. Where do you get a living body with no head? Wouldn't really be worth it unless the body was in a good, prime physical state, so it's not like you could take an old person on their deathbed's body.

You want a living, headless body? I can get you a living, headless body, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.

 

[Porkchop Express]

My question is in the article it stated a living donor...which would mean a living body. Where do you get a living body with no head? Wouldn't really be worth it unless the body was in a good, prime physical state, so it's not like you could take an old person on their deathbed's body.

You want a head? I can get you a head, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a head by 3 o'clock this afternoon, with eyeliner.