face transplant Options

[hi-C]

I'm not sure if this is right for debate so I'll post this here. If I'm wrong, I know a wonderful mod will put it in the right section

Doctors are going attempt a radical new surgery: a total face transplant. They're going to take the face of a dead person and put it on the face of someone (as of yet not selected) whose face was horribly disfigured in some accident. You can read the article here.

When I saw this I was like "Holy crap" and actually felt a little sick to my stomach. Is the desire to look nice worth risking your life? And then the whole thing about it being the face of a dead person... I think that's effed up.

What do you guys think?

[Gigi]

I know how you guys all feel about putting a deceased person's face on yourself and becoming that person's face...but actually, I saw a documentary on this a while ago in Hong Kong talking about these very issues. I think it was BBC doc, not sure, though.

It creeped me out, but not as much as the documentary about that guy from Germany or whatever who does those world-wide tours of preserved dead bodies from vacuumed plastic or whatever. He cuts the bodies into sheets with like, a band saw butchers use and...okay. It was just way more disturbing than this.

Anyway, of course the scientists have thought about these problems...how would people feel to have the face of someone else? So they did some tests on dead people.

They swapped the faces of two corpses and gave the original and swapped photos to other scientists to inspect. If you saw this person on the street, would you know that was him?

All of the scientists answered no. Because the human face is different, and just because the skin and flesh is the same, doesn't mean the bone is the same either.

You don't have to worry about people walking in the streets and seeing their grandfather who died 2 years ago on a face of a totally different person.

It was an interesting documentary, though, watch it.

[Ington]

I know how you guys all feel about putting a deceased person's face on yourself and becoming that person's face...but actually, I saw a documentary on this a while ago in Hong Kong talking about these very issues. I think it was BBC doc, not sure, though.

It creeped me out, but not as much as the documentary about that guy from Germany or whatever who does those world-wide tours of preserved dead bodies from vacuumed plastic or whatever. He cuts the bodies into sheets with like, a band saw butchers use and...okay. It was just way more disturbing than this.

Anyway, of course the scientists have thought about these problems...how would people feel to have the face of someone else? So they did some tests on dead people.

They swapped the faces of two corpses and gave the original and swapped photos to other scientists to inspect. If you saw this person on the street, would you know that was him?

All of the scientists answered no. Because the human face is different, and just because the skin and flesh is the same, doesn't mean the bone is the same either.

You don't have to worry about people walking in the streets and seeing their grandfather who died 2 years ago on a face of a totally different person.

It was an interesting documentary, though, watch it.

THANK YOU. I love you Gigi.

People. You are not going to look like the dead person. The skin and tissue that is going to be used is from a corpse. Although it sounds weird, its much better than having it be synthetic, because it could look really weird or cause allergies. Also, you won't have freaking maggots crawling out of you or anything.

ONCE AGAIN, FREAKING HELL, YOU WON'T LOOK LIKE THE DECEASED PERSON.
Calm down.

I think its horrible how you people can take horribly disfigured people and be disgusted because they want to look good, or even humanlike.

You people have to read the article before posting. This is happening too much here.