Head Transplants!!

[Tryharder62]

It reminds me of a Lifetime Movie: Who is Julia? where two young women's lives are changed forever in one moment. A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful woman's brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane.

This surgeon thinks he can just put the whole head on a new body this year!

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/236006-surgeon-plans-first-human-head-transplant-in-2017

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Good news for the Scarecrow...

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Canavero’s first volunteer, Valery Spiridonov, has appeared with Canavero several times to talk about his desire to undergo the operation. Spiridonov is 31 and suffers from a muscle-wasting disease called Werdnig-Hoffman’s. It leaves him wheelchair bound and dependent on others for basic needs.

There'd be some irony to be found in this if the patient lived but ended up paralyzed.

 

[Tryharder62]

You people are slacking! No jokes about which head?

 

[phrodeau]

Could be worse.

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/3982/p3982_p_v8_aa.jpg

 

[KingOrfeo]

You people are slacking! No jokes about which head?

Too busy sharpening a knife and trying to locate porn studs.

 

[PrincepsCyberius]

Could be worse.

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/3982/p3982_p_v8_aa.jpg

I've actually seen that movie.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Very brave of you to admit that.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Could be worse.

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/3982/p3982_p_v8_aa.jpg

I actually saw this in a movie theater.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I actually saw this in a movie theater.

What's a "movie theater"?

 

[ryan8558]

saw it at a drive-in.

for orfeo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater

 

[phrodeau]

Chelsea Brown passed away this week. I remember her from Laugh-In.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I am reading a sci-fi young adult trilogy "Unwind," about how they make abortion illegal but unwanted teenagers are unwound before their 18th birthday and all the body parts and organs are transplanted to those who can afford. There is a huge supply of organs and body parts, and this new surgical medicine replaces traditional healing.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Chelsea Brown passed away this week. I remember her from Laugh-In.

Did they save her head?

 

[KingOrfeo]

I am reading a sci-fi young adult trilogy "Unwind," about how they make abortion illegal but unwanted teenagers are unwound before their 18th birthday and all the body parts and organs are transplanted to those who can afford. There is a huge supply of organs and body parts, and this new surgical medicine replaces traditional healing.

That would certainly give parents some added disciplinary leverage. "Wanna be chopped for spare parts? No? Then shut up and mow the lawn!"

 

[sweepthefloor]

That would certainly give parents some added disciplinary leverage. "Wanna be chopped for spare parts? No? Then shut up and mow the lawn!"

That's pretty much how it is in the novel, except they don't tell the kids till the authorities come and take them to harvest camp.