SnotBubbles
Posts: 4,492
Mar 28, 2017 3:10pm
http://www.easttexasmatters.com/news/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-to-take-place-2017/681001972
The guinea pig is a Russian man suffering from some degenerative muscle disease that is killing him.
Video: [video][/video]
My guess is the dude dies. But, I guess if you're going to die any way it's worth a shot.
The guinea pig is a Russian man suffering from some degenerative muscle disease that is killing him.
Video: [video][/video]
My guess is the dude dies. But, I guess if you're going to die any way it's worth a shot.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Mar 28, 2017 3:12pm
C.
Q
queencitybuckeye
Posts: 7,117
Mar 28, 2017 3:24pm
I'll go with him making it for a few hours or maybe a couple of days.
GOONx19
Posts: 7,147
Mar 28, 2017 4:50pm
Even if he "lives", I don't see any way he'll have return of any meaningful neurocognitive function.
Z
Zunardo
Posts: 370
Mar 28, 2017 10:14pm
First and foremost, can the head-end of his spinal cord be successfully connected to the body-end of the donor's spinal cord? If not, why bother?
They are doing something interesting these days with severed spinal cords, according to this link - but matching the tissue of the two individuals may be a completely different matter:
http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org/...nto-mans-legs/
There are a plethora of other considerations - medical, ethical, societal - but just overcoming the above stuff would be technologically and medically difficult enough.
I wonder if the scientist would think it had been worth it if he wakes up as a permanent quadriplegic, but can otherwise breathe, eat, think, and talk on his own - think Denzel Washington in "The Bone Collector".
They are doing something interesting these days with severed spinal cords, according to this link - but matching the tissue of the two individuals may be a completely different matter:
http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org/...nto-mans-legs/
There are a plethora of other considerations - medical, ethical, societal - but just overcoming the above stuff would be technologically and medically difficult enough.
I wonder if the scientist would think it had been worth it if he wakes up as a permanent quadriplegic, but can otherwise breathe, eat, think, and talk on his own - think Denzel Washington in "The Bone Collector".
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Mar 29, 2017 6:24pm
I think this guy will fall victim to Bobble Head Syndrome first.
Spock
Posts: 2,853
Mar 29, 2017 9:07pm
crazy to think that this could actually be a thing
salto
Posts: 2,611
Mar 29, 2017 10:01pm
He'll end up somewhere along the lines of Terri Schiavo and/or Christopher Reeve*
*Post horseback riding.
You should volunteer for the second try.
*Post horseback riding.
Spock;1844707 wrote:crazy to think that this could actually be a thing
You should volunteer for the second try.
Z
Zunardo
Posts: 370
Mar 30, 2017 6:30am
I hadn't considered that, but you're absolutely right - if the attempt to connect the two spinal cord ends fails, he'll be worse off than a quadrapalegic because he'd have no nerve connection between brain and lungs.salto;1844712 wrote:He'll end up somewhere along the lines of Terri Schiavo......
Could Terri Schiavo breathe on her own? I can't remember.
Locked-in syndrome, indeed.
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
Mar 31, 2017 12:51pm
As long as he isn't somewhere with jebus-freaks in power who'll insist he has to be kept alive no matter what, I'll still be rolling the dice if in his position. You have a chance (no matter how small) of a better quality of life and if it fails, pull the plug.Zunardo;1844726 wrote:I hadn't considered that, but you're absolutely right - if the attempt to connect the two spinal cord ends fails, he'll be worse off than a quadrapalegic because he'd have no nerve connection between brain and lungs.
Could Terri Schiavo breathe on her own? I can't remember.
Locked-in syndrome, indeed.