I never thought I’d see the day… Actually, I honestly thought it was completely impossible! But now two revolutionary neurosurgeons have advanced medical science with their new surgical method and technology that they say lets them perform a successful head transplant.
Aloha! I think I almost spilled my herbal tea when I read this news article! It’s almost like out of the blue – two neurosurgeons from Italy and China announced they’ll be doing the world’s first head transplant surgery sometime in the next 10 months.
They’re doing the surgery in China because they say donors are more accessible. (Accessible? I’m not sure if they mean it’s easier to get a willing donor because it’s a Communist country or…? I mean, only coma patients are ideal, right? Anyone with a healthy body and aren’t sleeping probably wouldn’t want to donate their body, yes?)
But also they say that they can perform the surgery legally in China, so maybe another secret reason is China’s lack of human rights and less stringent legal protection concerning medical practices. I mean, I think they still do forced sterilization to control overpopulation in some places there!
But I guess the Chinese government does offer some protection to both the patient and the body donor – it seems like they’re not letting the surgical team do the surgery until their closely-guarded research has been published in the medical journals they’ve submitted it to.
Because they haven’t revealed anything specific to the public, most experts are super skeptical and critical about the upcoming head transplant surgery. They say it has a high chance of failure because the neurosurgeons haven’t supported their claims with any kind of solid evidence.
Despite all the tomato-throwing, the two leading neurosurgeons, Dr. Sergio Canavero and Dr. Xiaoping Ren, are assuring everyone that once their research is published in these journals, everyone’s skepticism will be quelled. Supporting their assertions, the editor of Surgery, who’s reviewing their research, says that the head transplant procedure has a 98 percent chance of succeeding.
The Possibilities Are Endless When You Can Switch Bodies!
Well let’s say that by January or February 2018 there’s someone in China who’s walking around in someone else’s body. Pretty sure the interview requests will be off the wall! But what does that mean for everyone? Everything.
If your heart is bad and you can’t get a new one, why not replace your whole body? Lung cancer? A new body comes with a new set of healthy lungs! It probably works for diabetes too! The possibilities are unlimited!
If you can literally take your head and put it in a new body, you can cure like 90 percent of any disease you can ever get unless the disease affects the head region.
And if you think about it – if you have a great brain without any neurodegeneration, you can get a brand new body in its 20s when you get past midlife. I mean, dementia and Alzheimer’s are completely preventable according to doctors – all you have to do is work your mind more. It’s like a muscle, if you don’t use it then it atrophies. So you could possibly live forever if you keep switching your body out – or maybe that’ll show us just how long the human brain can last in an eternal body.
And then there’s the yucky side of head transplant surgeries – like people who have bodies that aren’t being ravaged by disease, but are obese. They can’t lose weight on their own, or they want a super model’s body, so they throw their good body out to get a super model’s bod. Ugh, imagine if guys decide to get a head transplant surgery instead of working out to get sexy abs and other muscle groups? Pathetic.
And for people wanting to switch genders – they’ll be able to do it for real if they switch bodies. If you’re a guy, imagine if you had a girl’s body and could get pregnant? If you’re a girl and want to be a guy, then you’ll finally have a real penis to work with! But I wonder what happens to the legal stuff – the child won’t have your genes, but your new body’s. Does that mean he’s legally your child, but genetically someone else’s? What happens to wills and inheritance if the donor body person didn’t have an heir? Also what happens if you give birth in your new body and the original donor claims visitation and child custody rights because it’s genetically their child? Lots of legal headaches will come from head transplants, I’d imagine.
I guess in that same vein, what if you commit a crime in the donor body? The fingerprints and DNA evidence wouldn’t be yours, but the donor body’s. Does that mean that once you donate your body to someone else, you’re also giving them your genetic rights and identity?
Well, bad stuff aside – if these two neurosurgeons really can pull off a successful head transplant, it means miracles! I really hope they can do this!
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