Heads You Win?

[walpurgis]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/99014472/italian-doctor-says-the-worlds-first-human-head-transplant-is-imminent

[struth]

So you will get a new body. Interesting

[walpurgis]

Supposing the only donor available is female? :eek:

[struth]

always wanted to see how the other half live

[Lerxst]

He's done a couple of rehearsals with kadavers, so that's a good start.

You could just keep going - a new body every 10 years. Eat as much as you like.

As long as you wear a helmet you can do what you like.

Just a few ideas I'm going to email him. Seems like a nice bloke who has his head screwed on

[Minstrel SE]

That would be pretty amazing but It still unsettles me in a Frankenstein, grave robbers kind of way. Body parts 4 U.

What the future holds eh? I wonder if the rich will have access to a level of regeneration that the rest of us cant afford.

[Macca]

That would be pretty amazing but It still unsettles me in a Frankenstein, grave robbers kind of way. Body parts 4 U.

What the future holds eh? I wonder if the rich will have access to a level of regeneration that the rest of us cant afford.

That's already sort of true.

[Minstrel SE]

That's already sort of true.

Yes it already is with the cost and availability of certain treatments.

I would think that all the cryogenic freezing and head transplants are pretty useless unless we crack the DNA code of eternal youth.

How the hell do they get a head to accept a new body? The mind boggles!

I think our lives are far too short. If I had about 150 to 200 years I would have more chance to get my life sorted out :) I wanted the wisdom when I was young :)

[walpurgis]

Bet you'd wake up with a bit of a headache. Or somebody else's erection! :eek:

[Macca]

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I think our lives are far too short. If I had about 150 to 200 years I would have more chance to get my life sorted out :) I wanted the wisdom when I was young :)

I agree. It takes me years just to sort out the simplest things. 3 or 4 thousand active years would do. Reckon by the time I reached 2000 I'd have got myself properly organized.

[Lerxst]

Just a few ideas I'm going to email him. Seems like a nice bloke who has his head screwed on

I was kidding. Who'd want this this? I wouldn't. You'd still have 1000 year old ears for a start. This obsession with living as long as possible is for the freaks.

Won't work anyway. Let him do it on a sheep. Give him one shot at the procedure cos he sounds pretty cocky. And then we'll have a party and we'll all say he's great then we should drop the subject and put that, together with AI in the "Stupid Idea Box" and leave them alone.

:-) I'm only authoritarian when I'm around other people.

[walpurgis]

Reminds me of the girl who needed a lip transplant after an accident. Then couldn't find her any, but they had an arsehole available and gave her that instead. She puckered up for a kiss really well after that. :D