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Mysterae_ said:
On a serious note, if this transplant is successful and the operation improves/simplifies in a few years, would anybody still be willing to carry a donor card?
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I can't make up my mind If you're worried about someone getting your head or body, technically if its your head then you're really getting their body. I suppose the question would WTH happened to you that meant your head wasn't viable for a new body but your body was good to go, so to speak.

I see this heading down the affordability route to be honest whereby rich folk clinically obese from a port and lard diet pay poor people a fortune for their fit bodies in the knowledge their families will be secure.
 
LOAM said:
I can't make up my mind If you're worried about someone getting your head or body, technically if its your head then you're really getting their body. I suppose the question would WTH happened to you that meant your head wasn't viable for a new body but your body was good to go, so to speak.

I see this heading down the affordability route to be honest whereby rich folk clinically obese from a port and lard diet pay poor people a fortune for their fit bodies in the knowledge their families will be secure.
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Pretty much your 2nd paragraph. If someone becomes brain dead for whatever reason but with a functioning body, and someone rich enough has a desire for a new body, I can see the market. Highlander will never be the same :) ! Why else would medical research be interested in such a possibility other than for poops & giggles?
 
This sounds like the pitch to a crap and incredibly unPC sitcom from the 80's.

"Dave, a high flying investment banker on Wall Street is caught up in a gas explosion whilst buying his morning skinny latte. The only way to save his life is to transplant his head onto a donor body. But a mix up with the paperwork means that instead of getting the assigned donor body, Dave's head is transplanted onto the body of a Crips member from downtown LA. Now Dave's world is thrown into turmoil, his head is delivering quarterly earnings reports whilst his body is throwing out gang signs!"

Spoiler alert, in season 2 it turns out that the Crip member's head was transplanted on to Dave's body as well, they reunite and form a crime solving duo.
 
jsmoke said:
Bit creepy, can't see it happening, how do you find a bodiless subject in the first place?
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I would guess you would pop to your local second hand second head shop for a bargain. Lidl or Aldi will have cut price ones.

The head will already be connected to a body which will have some sort of illness which makes the head owner want to swap bodies which isn't ill.
 
Pretty sure Christ over Reeves foundation (and family) are working on repairing the spinal cord so I guess once they crack that then more doors will open.

~>Dg<~ said:
it actually quite scary if you start thinking into the future and what will happen once the tech is here.

old guy dying ? kill a younger person take body.hes nothing to lose your head is everything.if you actually think about it its only the brain really needed.
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Why limit yourself to a human body? Just put your vital organs in an iron man suit :)
 
Angilion said:
I think that's unlikely. Unless the future gets really bad, that would be wildly illegal and very easily proven. I think that if technology was advanced enough for the head/body swap procedure to be easy enough for it to be done by people willing to be an accomplice to murder with an extremely high chance of being convicted, technology would be advanced enough to grow bodies (which is probably easier than a head/body swap). Old guy dying? Life support while a new body is grown from his own cells. Old guy dying, not enough time to grow a new copy of his own body? Use an off the shelf body for the time being. Even if the old guy in question is fine with murdering people, that would be a better course of action for them.
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The barrier is solely medical, imo. Were it viable (which it is not) then there wouldn't have to be "murders" to get the new body. Several countries that have the death penalty would soon legalise the harvesting of bodies to those that "need them". Those who stood to gain financially from such practice would make the case that it was little different to organ harvesting of executed prisoners, which happens. There are a lot of rich and very powerful old people around. Some of them are sick enough that they would do this.

If it were possible, which it is not.
 
if he's got some new technique where he's able to fix/re-attach a broken spinal cord then surely that would be something rather useful for a great many people and rather more easy to demonstrate than going for the whole head?
 
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