Head Transplant Goal Is Immortality
Italian Doctor Serge Canavero says he can do a head transplant in less than an hour, and that it can lead to immortality.
The procedure — which Canavero has admitted is just a first step towards his ultimate aim of creating immortality — will see a man’s head removed and placed on a donor’s body.
That will see the man’s head get cooled down — as it is when doctors operate on some parts of the brain — and switched onto the different body. Doctors will then have a few minutes to attach the blood vessels and the whole thing will take less then an hour, Canavero said.
After that, the full joining process could take up to 24 hours. Canavero said that it would be carried out by a team of doctors to ensure that none of them got tired, and that doctors and surgeons from around the world had enquired about joining that team.
Canavero said that he will explain the procedure in depth at a neurosurgeons’ conference on June 12. “I’ll prove it is totally possible to all the sceptics there,” he told Mail Online.
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Kim Serrahn April 23rd, 2015 at 15:19
Dr. Frankenstein has risen from the grave. Part of me wants it to work but the sensible part says it won’t.
pignose4.0 April 23rd, 2015 at 15:23
If this guy has really figured this out he has developed a cure for spinal cord injuries if not the patient will be a quad.
Suzanne McFly April 23rd, 2015 at 15:51
With my luck, I would get honey boo-boos moms body, no thanks.
Khary A April 23rd, 2015 at 16:02
I for one hope this guy makes it happen. I have no desire to live forever but a millennium or so to see if humans can grow beyond their base nature would be kind of cool. Imagine how far we could go if we didn’t have to focus so much on making the false kind of immortality with statues and legacy, both of which generally require bloodshed and pain inflicted on others.
Good luck Doc, I applaud you for spitting in the eye of superstition and challenging the dubious achievments of Ozymandias.
AmusedAmused April 23rd, 2015 at 17:46
Apart from the fact that there are major scientific problems with this project — and the ethical problem of performing this procedure on a human being without obtaining anything approaching satisfactory results with lab animals — there is at least one major problem I see with immortality, or radically extending the human life span.
Social progress is fueled, to a large extent, by generational change. I am not denying that it’s nice to have people live longer, but the more you extend the human lifespan, the more human society will become a gerontocracy — where older people with older ideas hold positions of power and influence for many decades, while younger generations languish in extended adolescence. I think it was Cracked that pointed out once in an article on immortality that it’s not a coincidence that the Civil Rights Act was enacted almost 100 years after the Civil War ended — after all of the former slaveowners and almost all of their children were dead. This is not to say that older people can’t hold progressive ideas — but societal trends are massively shaped by historical events and notions considered “normal” during people’s formative years. Progress is, at its core, an evolution of values — and the longer people live, the slower it will be.
fahvel April 24th, 2015 at 12:05
gives a whole new meaning to giving and getting head –