Man volunteers for world first head transplant operation - Polidicks

Imagine the future where you get a hand-me-down body like a used car.

[QUOTE=Scot;47495661]Why would it cost $10 million?[/QUOTE] Because an operation like this costs more than an arm and a leg

[QUOTE=Dr.HAXXXX;47496258]Imagine the future where you get a hand-me-down body like a used car.[/QUOTE] The problem is your mind and body both degrade and lose spryness with age. I doubt we could increase peoples' lifetimes.

[QUOTE=Cufflux;47496313]The problem is your mind and body both degrade and lose spryness with age. I doubt we could increase peoples' lifetimes.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm sure medical science will just stop being able to add years onto someones life like every other time someone has said that exact same sentence throughout history. "That's bullshit, we'll never have a treatment for tuberculosis/chicken pox/literally any ailment."

so I hate to burst bubbles, but does anyone have a source on this that isn't the fucking [I]daily mail[/I]?

So if this works, transgender people would finally get the body they want including the right genitals and passing perfectly

A surgeon named Sergio? ? Sounds like a marvel villian

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;47496026]But you already have to "kill" the brain dead person to get other organs, the only difference here is that the paralyzed man has a high risk of dying through the process, but he has a terminal illness anyway.[/QUOTE] but in this case you're not even killing anything except maybe the skin and muscle cells of the person's face. There is no definition of "alive" that depends on that. The person's brain cells are DEAD. You aren't even damaging any of their organs.

[QUOTE=Judas;47496328]so I hate to burst bubbles, but does anyone have a source on this that isn't the fucking [I]daily mail[/I]?[/QUOTE] This has been reported on literally hundreds of times in every major news outlet, this news is a few months old, it's just that this is the first dude actually stepping forward.

Does anyone remember those soviet experiments where they would graft dog heads onto other dogs and crazy shit like that? I'm kind of optimistic.

[QUOTE=Impact1986;47496366]So if this works, transgender people would finally get the body they want including the right genitals and passing perfectly[/QUOTE] While you might be right, I'd rather give a paralyzed or severely disabled person a new body before a perfectly healthy person.

[QUOTE=Scot;47495661]Why would it cost $10 million?[/QUOTE] Because it's gonna take like a straight week to finish the operation

[QUOTE=Ogopogo;47495763]This is a picture of the guy. [img]http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article5480272.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/PAY-Russian-head-transplant-volunteer-Valery-Spiridonov.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I feel for people with severe diseases like this. Trapped in your own body. Hopefully a new body will be the answer instead of assisted suicide in the future.

Can't help but feel nauseous whenever I imagine how they'll do this.

[QUOTE=MisterSjeiks;47497267]Can't help but feel nauseous whenever I imagine how they'll do this.[/QUOTE] With science, lasers and some really steady hands.

This all sounds super optimistic, and I agree that literally ANYTHING at all going right in this operation can and will be counted as a significant breakthrough in the field -- but I don't quite understand the extent to which this can actually work. If the plan is to attach it to another body, wouldn't there be a significant likelihood of his brain's nervous network rejecting the body, or vise-versa? How could they route it through properly? And how would they get his brain a supply of steady useable oxygen during the procedure so that he doesn't die? There's no way it's simple as a pump -- I thought the circulatory system had to be fully intact for oxygen to be completely delivered to the brain. How would they be able to keep him alive once that's severed? [editline]10th April 2015[/editline] There are a lot of 'what-if's behind this, I suppose. Another reason this guy is probably one of the bravest people alive.

[QUOTE=CAPT Opp4;47497693]This all sounds super optimistic, and I agree that literally ANYTHING at all going right in this operation can and will be counted as a significant breakthrough in the field -- but I don't quite understand the extent to which this can actually work. If the plan is to attach it to another body, wouldn't there be a significant likelihood of his brain's nervous network rejecting the body, or vise-versa? How could they route it through properly? And how would they get his brain a supply of steady useable oxygen during the procedure so that he doesn't die? There's no way it's simple as a pump -- I thought the circulatory system had to be fully intact for oxygen to be completely delivered to the brain. How would they be able to keep him alive once that's severed? [editline]10th April 2015[/editline] There are a lot of 'what-if's behind this, I suppose. Another reason this guy is probably one of the bravest people alive.[/QUOTE] Actually the apparatus includes artificial lungs that pump air into circulating blood, making oxygen dissolve in plasma and passing into blood cells. It's the same mechanism as with the pressure differences between lung capillaries and air.

[QUOTE=Megadave;47495612]He better be sure this is what he wants, a lot of people would lose their head over a decision like this.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUj6NQJG8iw[/media]

[QUOTE=Dalndox;47495684]Just taking out a small organ is expensive. Now consider they're removing a person's entire head and reattaching it. You have to sever all of these muscles and nerves, without destroying them, then reattach all of them perfectly. An errant twitch with the knife could end this man's life in less than heartbeat. If this works, it will be one of the most legendary procedures to date.[/QUOTE] This doesn't actually answer the question though. 10 million seems like such a huge amount, I wonder how the costs add up.

What if decides that in the future he wants to have children? They wont be his biologically. He will essentially be "wearing" the children's dead fathers body.

I don't think he will be in any position to have sex, given that it will most likely leave him paralyzed.

I hope he gets like a 7 foot black guy's body. That'd be really cool.

[QUOTE=The Janitor;47498224]I hope he gets like a 7 foot black guy's body. That'd be really cool.[/QUOTE] Yeah. With his white head that would look super cool.

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This sounds like something a Florida man would do.

[QUOTE=Judas;47496328]so I hate to burst bubbles, but does anyone have a source on this that isn't the fucking [I]daily mail[/I]?[/QUOTE] Daily mail isn't necessarily a non-credible source, it's just that the stories they post are often super clickbait controversy starters like RECENTLY IMMIGRATED PAKISTANI CAUGHT ROBBING QUARAN'S AND FERTILIZER FROM CONVENIENCE STORE. A story like this, despite the source being daily mail, is fine.

See the problem here is the whole "re-attaching the spinal cord" A russian team did a head transplant with a monkey -years- ago and it worked, just no spinal cord. Im kinda skeptical about the whole "oh I know how and no one else does" thing this guys pulling, if you think its that simple why not prove it first?

I'm going to assume they'll need to be specific in terms of what donor body they use so it's compatible with this guy, which probably narrows it down to a select few. Even if he survives the procedure he'll be strictly limited to what he can do.

I was reading an article about this and apparently there's a chance that the new body that his head would be attached could cause him to experience an extreme amount of insanity due to the fact that the body chemistry would be completely different or some shit.

I cant believe no ones done this yet [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbBX6aEzEz8[/media] Literally the plot to the second x-files movie