Human head transplant

[fuji]

One neuro surgeon thinks it will be possible within ten years. Creates the possibility of a vampire culture where the very rich use transplant technology to stave off death, potentially replacing their entire body below the neck with a younger one.

Maybe ten years is optimistic but we will get there.

Creates some "interesting" ethical questions.

Would you kill someone every fifty years or so if it got you a younger body and let you live another hundred years?

Eventually I guess brain diseases will get you but certainly for many this eventually is a path to longevity.

I know the founders of Google have invested heavily in longevity research hoping to use their billions to cheat death.

 

[ActionJ]

So u would have a face of a senior on a 20 year old body? Would look kinda weird.

 

[huckfinn]

So u would have a face of a senior on a 20 year old body? Would look kinda weird.

Or a man's head on a woman's body.......

 

[Gntlmn]

Yep, aging that deteriorates the rest of the body will still affect parts of the head over time. But I guess that's part of the research.

But, go for it. Sure, the rich will use it for their own purposes. But there will probably be unforeseen complications much later on that will affect the early adopters, anyway. (and since I used the word "unforeseen" you can't argue with me LOL)

 

[AK-47]

A new head means a new brain as well, things are looking up for Ceiling Cat

 

[GPIDEAL]

I saw a sci-fi movie earlier this summer that was about rich people electronically transporting their minds to a younger body of a person that was brain dead. They had to take pills to maintain the mind-transfer effect.

 

[Ref]

I could see them storing your brain in a jar so your mind could live a few hundred years. They could hook up a technology that would give you camera eyes. You could not do anything, but from a virtual perspective you would be fine.

Mom: Billy, this is your great, great, great, great, great, great great, great, great grandfather.
Billy: Nice jar