Ekstasis
Honorary Master
So I was talking to a collegue of mine yesterday about his daughter (she's paralyzed from the waste down). Then he suddenly asked me about a head transplant and what I thunk about it. So naturally I almost threw up, but that's just me. After composing myself and trying to put this idea into perspective I found myself in a two way street. On the one hand the idea of having someone elses body ( remember not your own feet,hands,penis/vagina etc. etc. ) sounds horrific to say the least. On the other hand...... a new life?
Here's a short section from wiki. Although not much research has been done other than experiments on monkeys, the fundis reckon it's possible.
A head transplant is a surgical operation involving the grafting of an organism's head onto the body of another. It should not be confused with another, hypothetical, surgical operation, the brain transplant. Head transplantation inevitably involves decapitating the patient. Although it has been successfully performed using dogs, monkeys and rats, no human is known to have undergone the procedure.
Since the technology required to reattach a severed spinal cord has not yet been developed, the subject of a head transplant would become quadriplegic unless proper therapies, presumably along the lines of stem cell therapy, were developed. This technique has been proposed as possibly useful for people who are already quadriplegics and who are also suffering from widespread organ failures which would otherwise require many different and difficult transplant surgeries. It may also be useful for people who would rather be quadriplegic than dead. There is no uniform consensus on the ethics of such a procedure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
Now the question - If you were paralyzed and couldn't walk or you had some other condition/deficiency and some doctor presented "head transplant" as an option or solution, would you consider it?
Here's a short section from wiki. Although not much research has been done other than experiments on monkeys, the fundis reckon it's possible.
A head transplant is a surgical operation involving the grafting of an organism's head onto the body of another. It should not be confused with another, hypothetical, surgical operation, the brain transplant. Head transplantation inevitably involves decapitating the patient. Although it has been successfully performed using dogs, monkeys and rats, no human is known to have undergone the procedure.
Since the technology required to reattach a severed spinal cord has not yet been developed, the subject of a head transplant would become quadriplegic unless proper therapies, presumably along the lines of stem cell therapy, were developed. This technique has been proposed as possibly useful for people who are already quadriplegics and who are also suffering from widespread organ failures which would otherwise require many different and difficult transplant surgeries. It may also be useful for people who would rather be quadriplegic than dead. There is no uniform consensus on the ethics of such a procedure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
Now the question - If you were paralyzed and couldn't walk or you had some other condition/deficiency and some doctor presented "head transplant" as an option or solution, would you consider it?
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The page is kinda vague though so I doubt we'll ever know.
Sounds wicked