Lose Your Head If It Wasn’t Attached

Head transplants , according to Italian surgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero, are possible. Not in the future, but right now he claims. It has been attempted on animals in the past but total paralysis was an insurmountable problem. The doctor says spinal cord repair is possible today. The proceedure is estimated to require 100 surgeons 36 hours at the cost of 8.5 million British pounds. I doubt NHS or Obamacare will ever cover it though.

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Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 06, 2013
Category: Experiments

Comments

What a HEADy proposition! The doc is sure aHEAD of the curve. He is HEAD and shoulders above the rest.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/06/13 at 02:32 PM

So if I'm incredibly rich and can arrange for . . . I mean I happen to find a 19-year-old who is brain dead because of an accident (yeah, that's right, an accident), I can get my head transplanted onto that body.

Sounds good to me!

I wonder what complications there might be if the body is the opposite sex (besides the obvious playing with yourself constantly).

Posted by Phideaux on 07/06/13 at 03:09 PM

If you want a perfect tissue match, and don't want to face a lifetime of anti-rejection meds, there's always headless clones:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,138483,00.html
The downside? You'll have to grow up all over again! (Then again, after all these years, I still haven't grown up for the first time yet!)

Posted by Captain DaFt on 07/06/13 at 04:51 PM

We've got to HEAD this MINDLESS punning off before it goes to her HEAD.

@CaptianD: If this came to fruition then the women could be right, for once, in calling some dude a mindless lump.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 07/06/13 at 11:57 PM

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