The science-fiction writer Larry Niven dealt with issues like this years ago.
In his created universe there were such people as "organleggers" who snatched people off the street to be used as raw material for medical procedures.
The reason this might apply now is the recipient of the body would obviously wish to have a healthy young donor, not one full of disease or one maimed in an accident.
Who knows, in 30 years maybe medical science could do the job. You can imagine that certain people with huge wealth and a limited sense of ethics would be willing to murder a person for their youth.
It's reminded me of The Body Snatchers by RL Stevenson.
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How are they making nerve fibres join in the spine to make the person walk and talk, when they can't even get them to join in current spinal injury patients?
Or basically: If they have solved that, where no one else has been able, why are they not curing all paralysed people first, before moving on to major things like whole head transplants?
On a lighter note: So they will be able to transplant my entire head, but still can't cure my hair loss?
Also: if they can tackle the nerve joining issue, why not just transplant my whole brain into that of a sexy 19 year old lad and cure all my problems in one go?! Hey! I could even turn myself on!
Also about the same age more or less same gender and race.
It would make a transgendered operation a lot more complete: They could have their head or brain transplanted into/onto the gendered body that they feel they are.
Male to female ones could then have babies and generate no end of threads on DS.
Whilst few and far between, it would be fully OK if the younger person did die of problems in the head area only and had consented to donating of whole body.
Also, it doesn't have to be some 18 year old person, it could be the body of someone in their early 40s who was otherwise healthy. That would still give the recipient another 30+ years.
Technically... most organs only need oxygenated blood to survive so supply it with that and it keeps going. (It would have a general anaesthetic any way so should be unconscious at the time.)
Strange therefore that they are talking about head transplants and yet can't even make a simple pump that can supply oxygenated blood around the body without getting rejected. If they could do that, they could just keep people heads alive in jars. (Futurama Stylee)
The two spinal cords would be fused using chemical polyethylene glycol.
Sorted!
Seriously, doesn't anybody who works in science/medical journalism have a clue about science or medicine?! It's like having theatre and cinema reviews written by people who never watch anything, or a political correspondent who knows sweet Fanny Adams about politics.
This raises about a million questions, it's making my head hurt (no pun intended)
It's also making me feel a bit sick for some reason
Yeah and mine. I was thinking about simple stuff like going to the toilet - it wouldn't be my backside I was wiping, it would be someone elses! But the hand doing the wiping would be theirs too! It's all too weird for me.
The wife has said while she'd still love "me" (as in who I am personality wise etc), she wouldn't be able to be intimate with new bod because she'd feel like she was being physical with someone else. She said I have little 'cute bits' on my body that she likes and they'd be gone and it just wouldn't be the same.
I don't know whether I'd feel the same as her because for me it would be a case of finding new 'cute bits' I like, but it would also be freaky because I'd feel like I was cheating on her with herself. Even if she looked identical, I doubt she'd smell (or even taste) the same so it would probably be like they transferred her personality into someone else.
Yeah and mine. I was thinking about simple stuff like going to the toilet - it wouldn't be my backside I was wiping, it would be someone elses! But the hand doing the wiping would be theirs too! It's all too weird for me.
Ha ha! That's just cracked me up
Actually, if you decided to play with yourself would it make you bisexual? You'd be wanking someone else off and they'd be wanking you off!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt56RMbpq_0
It's also making me feel a bit sick for some reason
Or basically: If they have solved that, where no one else has been able, why are they not curing all paralysed people first, before moving on to major things like whole head transplants?
On a lighter note: So they will be able to transplant my entire head, but still can't cure my hair loss?
Also: if they can tackle the nerve joining issue, why not just transplant my whole brain into that of a sexy 19 year old lad and cure all my problems in one go?! Hey! I could even turn myself on!
It would make a transgendered operation a lot more complete: They could have their head or brain transplanted into/onto the gendered body that they feel they are.
Male to female ones could then have babies and generate no end of threads on DS.
Also, it doesn't have to be some 18 year old person, it could be the body of someone in their early 40s who was otherwise healthy. That would still give the recipient another 30+ years.
Technically... most organs only need oxygenated blood to survive so supply it with that and it keeps going. (It would have a general anaesthetic any way so should be unconscious at the time.)
Strange therefore that they are talking about head transplants and yet can't even make a simple pump that can supply oxygenated blood around the body without getting rejected. If they could do that, they could just keep people heads alive in jars. (Futurama Stylee)
Sorted!
Seriously, doesn't anybody who works in science/medical journalism have a clue about science or medicine?! It's like having theatre and cinema reviews written by people who never watch anything, or a political correspondent who knows sweet Fanny Adams about politics.
ahh , the old masturbating in a tree fall chestnut
Yeah and mine. I was thinking about simple stuff like going to the toilet - it wouldn't be my backside I was wiping, it would be someone elses! But the hand doing the wiping would be theirs too! It's all too weird for me.
I don't know whether I'd feel the same as her because for me it would be a case of finding new 'cute bits' I like, but it would also be freaky because I'd feel like I was cheating on her with herself. Even if she looked identical, I doubt she'd smell (or even taste) the same so it would probably be like they transferred her personality into someone else.
Actually, if you decided to play with yourself would it make you bisexual? You'd be wanking someone else off and they'd be wanking you off!
In 2 years! Bollocks!
Who wants the same body!
Mine needed a major over-haul and upgrade at about 16 and went downhill from then!