First Human Head Transplant Doctor Ready [Updated]

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Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant

By Ross Kenneth Urken On 4/26/16 at 6:11 AM



Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero is set to perform a two-part human head transplant procedure he dubs HEAVEN (“head anastomosis venture”) and Gemini (the subsequent spinal cord fusion).

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Canavero has a plan, delineated in a June 2013 paper in the peer-reviewed journal Surgical Neurology International and presented in 2015 as the keynote address of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeon’s 39th annual conference. It’s a 36-hour, $20 million procedure involving at least 150 people, including doctors, nurses, technicians, psychologists and virtual reality engineers.

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[sherlew99]

I found an update on this story.

Head Transplants: Sergio Canavero Says First Patient Will Be Chinese National, Not Valery Spiridonov

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Here are a couple of related articles.


Scientists Carry Out Rat Head Transplant

An outlandish surgeon who aims to perform the first head transplant just gave a rat a second head

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Here's another article:

A surgeon aiming to do the first human head transplant says 'Frankenstein' predicted a crucial part of the surgery



This bit is especially interesting:

"I’m into life extension," he told Business Insider on a recent Skype call. "Life extension and breaching the wall between life and death."

In fact, Canavero said that in doing the procedure he wants to "create a near death experience — actually a full death experience — and see what comes next."

[pickinduck]

This just creeps me out to much.
A very long time ago I seen the video of a guy doing that to monkeys. This stuff is nightmarish.

[sherlew99]

It is really weird. I doubt that he'll succeed, though.