Mental illness.
The term Body Integrity Identity disorder (BIID) describes the extremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis. Some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord. Psychologists and physicians explain this phenomenon in quite different ways; but a successful psychotherapeutic or pharmaceutical therapy is not known. Lobbies of persons suffering from BIID explain the desire for amputation in analogy to the desire of transsexuals for surgical sex reassignment.
....”...The term Body Integrity Identity disorder (BIID) describes the extremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis....”
what kind of surgeon would amputate a perfectly good and functioning limb....? I thought the Hippocratic oath had as one of its major tenents “First do you no harm” or words to that effect.... this is insanity on steroids......