World’s first head transplant volunteer could experience something "worse..

*shudder*

This is very X-Files like, but what is worth saving from Hillary?

I believe that when we start creating and excepting real life Frankensteins, we really are nearing the end.

I don't generally have a hard time with the concept of organ transplants, if there is a person in need and a willing donor available or organs available from the recently deceased I see the value in those procedures. Putting a head on a different body crosses some lines for me; the hypocrisy for me is accepting some procedures but not this one. Would it be acceptable to allow a patient to have two or four organs transplanted but to draw the line at some arbitrary number?

It is tragic that a 30 year old man is in need of an entire new body but at what point does a medical procedure cross the line in to "playing God?" Unfortunately there are conditions and diseases that are fatal, one could argue that life itself is a fatal disease, no one gets out alive. Does this new medical capability mean that people with fatal diseases and the monetary means should cheat death and extend their lives simply because they can? Where do the bodies come from? I assume it would be desirable to find the most fit and medically sound bodies for transplants. Would it suddenly become acceptable to "farm human beings" as a commodity to be consumed like a commercial product?

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I'm getting a vision of a whole new take on sex change operations.