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Dr. Sergio Canavero says he is two years
away from performing the first total human
head transplant
The first patient will be a 30-year-old Russian
man with a rare, genetic muscle wasting
disease
One ethicist says Canavero should be helping
paralyzed patients walk before performing
body transplants
(CNN)— It sounds like the plot for a science
fiction movie.
Someone has a horrific accident and winds up in
the hospital, brain dead and on life support.
Doctors approach the family about organ
donation, but instead of saving as many as eight
lives, the family is asked to donate the whole
body to save just one individual. Perhaps a
quadriplegic with a mind that outmatches their
malfunctioning body.
As crazy as this sounds, to put an entire head on
a new body, a human body, Italian physician Dr.
Sergio Canavero says we are approaching
HEAVEN (an acronym for head anastomosis
venture; anastomosis is surgically connecting
two parts). The pieces are coming together but
there are still many hurdles to jump.
Canavero says he has part of the funding
secured, although he says he can't yet disclose
where the money is coming from as a condition
of the funding. He's also taking the 2015
layman's approach with crowd funding and book
sales.
He has identified Valery Spiridonov as the first
patient. The 30-year-old Russian man suffers
from a rare genetic disorder called Werdnig-
Hoffman disease. Canavero says the man
volunteered. The two men have talked via Skype
but they have yet to meet in person and
Canavero has not reviewed Spiridonov's medical
records.
Canavero says he has a stack of emails and
letters from people who want this procedure.
Many of them are transsexuals who want a new
body, he says. But he insists the first patients
will be people who are suffering from a muscle
wasting disease .

wow.......hope it qoes well.......*in martin luthers kings voice**nothing is impossible*

Nope. There are somethings that are impossible. This is one of them

RoyalBlak007:

Its so possible...

It's sooo not possible

Tandullceblog:

It's sooo not possible

my dear, nothing is impossible.
my only concern bothers on ethics and personality clash.

Maross:


my dear, nothing is impossible.
my only concern bothers on ethics and personality clash.

This particular one my dear is impossible.

For now I don't it is possible, infact is improbable

Tandullceblog:
Nope. There are somethings that are impossible. This is one of them

My dear, if someone as at 1954 in the person of Vladimir P. Demikhov could perform a head transfer experiment on dogs using about 12 hours, what about now that science and tech. have advanced?

Wow!

sinaj:
Wow!

There was a news last year or so on one that happened in SA but seems it turned out to be a hoax.

Here and Here

The only thing that is not possible is the impossible itself. Every other thing are just possible.