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by sshbio 3704 days ago
Do we want to save the head or to save the body. Maybe the former. Maybe...
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The most dangerous part of the whole surgery is what happens if something goes wrong midway after they've cut the heads out?

Scenario 1: Irrecoverable scenario where they can't sew the head to the new body. Now what? Will they sew it back to the original body? Let the guy die(What does this even mean at this stage)?

Scenario 2: Head can be put on new body but they can't do it all properly, when and how do they call it quits? What will be the state of the guy? Will they just him?

Other unknown unknowns.

Apart from the fact that the patient has taken a leap of faith, to prefer death over suffering a medical condition all his life. You have to say the doctors involved in this, and you need some really crazy amounts of courage to even attempt something like this.

It definetly seems insane to me, we are not ready. Will we ever be?

I do not imagine any way to face these situations.