Terminally ill man set to undergo first full HEAD transplant (trun title)

dailymail.co.uk ^ | Will Stewart and Nick Fagge

[RoosterRedux]

A man with a fatal medical condition has spoken exclusively to MailOnline about how he is set to become the first person to undergo a head transplant and hopes it could be as soon as next year.

Valery Spiridonov says he is ready to put his trust in controversial surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero who claims he can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy body.

Mr Spiridonov, 30, a computer scientist from Russia, said: 'My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind.'

As a lifelong sufferer of the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease, he says he wants the chance of a new body before he dies.

[JPG]

may yours be as successful as mine

[pierrem15]

Yeah— how exactly will the heart and diaphragm be kept working? Not to mention being a paraplegic for life, although I suppose he’s already facing that.

[GeronL]

Ability to entertain himself forever?

[Gamecock]

[Boogieman]

Someone stupid enough to check the donor box on their driver’s license, no doubt.

[GeronL]

Who would pay.for this hoax?

[GeronL]

Bump

[publius911]

I’m thinking a perfectly healthy headless body will be impossible to find.
But that’s just me.

[RoosterRedux]

I’m darned sorry. See post 38 for link.

[GeronL]

Bump

[Sidebar Moderator]

No problem, thanks!

[MrEdd]

Meh. Heinlein did that story.

[I-ambush]

Isn’t that more of a body transplant?

[Empireoftheatom48]

An Ugly wrinkled old head on a twenty years old body, that’s the ticket!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind.”

Wanna bet?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Who is donating the healthy body?”

Tsarnev.

[GeronL]

Abbey NOT Normal

[GeronL]

heh

[EinNYC]

If this guy doesn't mind being a two-tone model, here's a very low mileage head, hasn't been used much, and I'm its absence would scarcely be noticed:

[miliantnutcase]

I’d buy that for a dollar!