World’s first head transplant patient schedules procedure for 2017:

How far is enough? Isn’t modern medicine going to extremes with such a dangerous and complimented surgery by going into uncharted waters?

I say if someone is that far gone and ready for the bone yard; what good is a new head going to do for them?

A man set to become the world’s first head transplant patient has scheduled the procedure for in December of 2017. Valery Spiridonov, will be the first recipient of a full head transplant; maybe!!!!

Spiridonov was diagnosed with a genetic muscle-wasting condition called Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, and volunteered for the procedure despite the risks involved.

“When I realized that I could participate in something really big and important, I had no doubt left in my mind and started to work in this direction,” Spiridonov, a Russian computer scientist, told CEN. “The only thing I feel is the sense of pleasant impatience, like I have been preparing for something important all my life and it is starting to happen.”

The experimental surgery will be performed by Dr. Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon. The procedure is expected to last up to 36 hours, and it will require Spiridonov’s head be cooled as well as the donor’s body to extend the period during which the cells can survive without oxygen. They better stock the operating room with a couple of pallets of Red Bull to keep the troops awake.

I have one critical question, beside the fact if it will be  successful or not. Who is Spirionov really going to be if he comes out of it? Himself or the donor?  He has to be the person that the head came from and no longer be himself.

Common sense and medicine tells us; from the neck up is our computer or power pack. It controls our entire body and its functions. If that is changed/replaced, we are no longer the person we used to be, we are the person from which the replacement head came from.

I think using the expression; getting a head in life, will really be stretched to its max.

The medical community should rethink this one before they get in over the head.