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The first human head transplant has taken place

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    #32
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    I have to say lads I am deeply disappointed that there's been no comment of "what kind of life is there with no head ?"

    Or similar. Not good enough!!!!


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    #33
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Apparently the first recipient of this surgery is going to be the great great grandson of Albert Einstein, his name is Frank...


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    #34
    Don't Chute!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    This sounds like something Karl Pilkington would come up with.


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    #35
    Rory28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    If this works I can see a future where billionaires kidnap healthy 20 something year olds to prolong their life. At the very least we will get a good sci-fi out of this.


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    #36
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭valoren


    That's the only way to get ahead in life.


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    #37
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Rory28 wrote: »
    If this works I can see a future where billionaires kidnap healthy 20 something year olds to prolong their life. At the very least we will get a good sci-fi out of this.

    kidnap them?

    they will grow them


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    #38
    Father Hernandez
    Registered Users Posts: 11,227 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    Surprised this hasn't got more media coverage tbh. Was only reading on LinkedIn yesterday and then it just 'happened' this morning.

    If successful and I assume we won't know for a while if the guy is in a coma and then rehab, etc then it would be such a breakthrough for medicine no?


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    #39
    Rory28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    kidnap them?

    they will grow them

    ah nuts. The Island was a terrible movie.


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    #40
    Akrasia
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    Would it not be easier to do a brain transplant than an entire head transplant?

    It Absolutely definitely wouldn't work, but it would be easier


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    #41
    conor222
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭conor222


    You can do anything you sent your mind to


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    #42
    BrokenArrows
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    eviltimeban wrote: »
    On a corpse. I would've thought that wouldn't be too risky?

    However, this is interesting:



    So does this pave the way for people to swap bodies and heads around, for the craic?

    How do they prove that they did the transplant correctly if they did it on already dead people?


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    #43
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    How do they prove that they did the transplant correctly if they did it on already dead people?

    Maybe they sat the body up and the head didn't fall off.


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    #44
    Charmeleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Charmeleon


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    How do they prove that they did the transplant correctly if they did it on already dead people?

    They had volunteers read Louise O’Neill articles out loud on 24hr rotation until the corpse got up and walked out.


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    #45
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,208 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    My only dilemma now is what body to choose?

    Do I choose a hot young wan with lovely boobs so that I can spend all day playing with them?

    I mean if I chose a fellas body, whenever I have to go for a piss it would involve holding another fellas mickey. I mean if I had the mans body I'd be doing to riding but it would be with some dead fella's mickey.

    I think that it was Socrates who first posed this question back in the day


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    #46
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Do you get to pick a younger body, or does it have to be the same age? Can, say, a 70 year old brain deal with the way an 18-year old body works? An old as f**k head on a fit young body is gonna be a bit weird.


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    #47
    igCorcaigh
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    Father Hernandez wrote: »
    Surprised this hasn't got more media coverage tbh. Was only reading on LinkedIn yesterday and then it just 'happened' this morning.

    If successful and I assume we won't know for a while if the guy is in a coma and then rehab, etc then it would be such a breakthrough for medicine no?

    It's been done on a corpse.


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    #48
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    lawred2 wrote: »
    so they stuck a head on a corpse?

    how could they possibly know if they did it right?

    also - did they do it during a lightning storm?

    They bring him/her back to life and ask them. Simples.


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    #49
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    So, they plan to take a healthy head from a terminally ill body, and stick it on a recently deceased, headless (but healthy) body? How do they get the donor body back to life? They are hardly going to take the head off someone still alive and put on the new head... unless the person is brain dead?

    Cup of strong tae would probably do the trick.


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    #50
    BrokenArrows
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    eviltimeban wrote: »
    Do you get to pick a younger body, or does it have to be the same age? Can, say, a 70 year old brain deal with the way an 18-year old body works? An old as f**k head on a fit young body is gonna be a bit weird.

    They could probably put a 70 year old head on a 18 year old body but the brain would still be old and die before the body does.


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    #51
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    They could probably put a 70 year old head on a 18 year old body but the brain would still be old and die before the body does.

    Not necessarily - do brains have lifespans independent to the body? Or could they keep going if they had a chance to access younger blood / healthier lungs / heart / nervous system etc?

    Or are the likes of eyesight / hearing failing down to the age of the head?


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    #52
    Irish Guitarist
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    #53
    Roger_007
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    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    They could probably put a 70 year old head on a 18 year old body but the brain would still be old and die before the body does.

    John Giles could make a comeback on the Irish team if he got a young body; HORRAY!.........
    (And also Eamon Dunphy; oh sh1t!)


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    #54
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    I find it all a bit fcuky to be honest. Ugh.


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    #55
    irishproduce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    This is all nonsense.
    How can they say they successfully reattached the spinal column when we all know very well that when the spinal cord is cut, it leads to a life paralyzed or at best, very very intense rehabilitation with the hope of getting a bit of movement.
    I fail to see how they could completely attach two different cords and be thrilled with the success.


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    #56
    tayto lover
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    "A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage,” Professor Canavero said."

    Christ. I hope they won't come raiding Boards.


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    #57
    Charmeleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Charmeleon


    tayto lover wrote: »
    "A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage,” Professor Canavero said."

    Christ. I hope they won't come raiding Boards.

    We’ll protect you.


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    #58
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    irishproduce wrote: »
    This is all nonsense.
    How can they say they successfully reattached the spinal column when we all know very well that when the spinal cord is cut, it leads to a life paralyzed or at best, very very intense rehabilitation with the hope of getting a bit of movement.
    I fail to see how they could completely attach two different cords and be thrilled with the success.


    and also, how are they going to transplant a living head onto a living headless body? How will they keep the head alive? Doesn't part of the brain control involuntary actions such as breathing, how will they keep the heart beating without the brain attached?

    Surely this is hogwash?


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    #59
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    They did it on a corpse !! ? For F*cks sake sure I could do that !!!

    Jaysus just give me some superglue and a staple gun and were grand like ..


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    #60
    lawred2
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    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    eviltimeban wrote: »
    Do you get to pick a younger body, or does it have to be the same age? Can, say, a 70 year old brain deal with the way an 18-year old body works? An old as f**k head on a fit young body is gonna be a bit weird.

    They could probably put a 70 year old head on a 18 year old body but the brain would still be old and die before the body does.

    The brain doesn't have it's own timeline


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    #61
    PeterParker957
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    It's pronounced Huuurrrrfuuuurrrrrrrr.


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