Re: MED: "Frankenstein fears after head transplant"

From: zeb haradon (zebharadon@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2001 - 15:07:00 MDT


Mitch says:

>The physician who proposed this operation/experiment has acknowledged that
>the person who has their head moved to another body will experience
>permanent
>paralysis. So what kind of life is this?

A kind that is better then death.

>He is not working on neural repair
>or regeneration. He is not working on freezing and reviving people to
>health.

1 - This would be done on someone who is already paralyzed, whose natural
body is suffering multiple organ failure. Rather then transplant a kidney, a
heart, a liver, they would do it all at once.
2 - This is a first step in the type of thing you are talking about.

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