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?

[eunie03]

People have to stop trying to be something they're not. If you're not freaking original enough to make your own face, you deserve to be ugly.

[Gigi]

People have to stop trying to be something they're not. If you're not freaking original enough to make your own face, you deserve to be ugly.

AGAIN.

IT ISN'T FOR UGLY PEOPLE. IT'S FOR BADLY BADLY BADLY DISFIGURED PEOPLE WHO ARE NO LONGER UGLY, BUT NOW ARE JUST SCARY.

[eunie03]

AGAIN.

IT ISN'T FOR UGLY PEOPLE. IT'S FOR BADLY BADLY BADLY DISFIGURED PEOPLE WHO ARE NO LONGER UGLY, BUT NOW ARE JUST SCARY.

WELL... I mean. In the strictest sense, disfigured people are "ugly" by definition. You hardly go, "wow, that disfigured person is really pretty". And I don't think disfiguration is scary much. It's tragic and unattractive... but scary? Nah.

That aside, I STILL don't see the point in stealing someone else's face. If we have the techniques to paste on someone's face on another person, we have the technique to build a new one.

edit: Oooo, I just read your old post. They wouldn't look the same, eh? You see.. that just changes everything. How misleading.

But my ugly=disfigured comment still stands.

[*mipadi*]

That aside, I STILLl don't see the point in stealing someone else's face. If we have the techniques to paste on someone's face on another person, we have the technique to build a new one.

No, building a new face is completely different from using an existing one. Where are you going to get all the skin and tissue it would take to build a new face? How are you going to shape it so there are no seams or scars? How are you going to build nerves so lips and eyelids function properly? All this is much harder to do than using an existing face.

The doctor's also aren't "stealing" someone else's face--the face was donated, just like an organ.

[eunie03]

No, building a new face is completely different from using an existing one. Where are you going to get all the skin and tissue it would take to build a new face? How are you going to shape it so there are no seams or scars? How are you going to build nerves so lips and eyelids function properly? All this is much harder to do than using an existing face.

The doctor's also aren't "stealing" someone else's face--the face was donated, just like an organ.

First of all.... you're taking "stealing" out of context. I meant stealing as in imitation, not theft. Secondly, I wasn't aware it wasn't in image-likeness. Last... you really think a face transplant wil result in no seams or scars? -_-;;

[*mipadi*]

First of all.... you're taking "stealing" out of context. I meant stealing as in imitation, not theft. Secondly, I wasn't aware it wasn't in image-likeness. Last... you really think a face transplant wil result in no seams or scars? -_-;;

Maybe a thin mark around the outer edge, but nothing like completely building a new face from skin grafts.

[eunie03]

Maybe a thin mark around the outer edge

That seems pretty near flawless to me.

[*mipadi*]

That seems pretty near flawless to me.

Right, but had you read what I wrote, I was comparing the growth of scar tissue between a face transplant and the (theoretical) use of skin grafts to build a new face. I didn't say anything about infection or rejection by the body, which is an issue with any transplant.

[eunie03]

Right, but had you read what I wrote, I was comparing the growth of scar tissue between a face transplant and the (theoretical) use of skin grafts to build a new face. I didn't say anything about infection or rejection by the body, which is an issue with any transplant.

Please... you didn't say anything about the growth of scar tissue. If you infer something, we're suppoed to read your mind? Comparitavely speaking, [to me] the two are just alternatives to each other. I don't necessarily believe one's better than the other. It's my opinion. I'm sorry if it disagrees with yours, but hey. Thats life.

[*mipadi*]

Please... you didn't say anything about the growth of scar tissue. If you infer something, we're suppoed to read your mind? Comparitavely speaking, [to me] the two are just alternatives to each other. I don't necessarily believe one's better than the other. It's my opinion. I'm sorry if it disagrees with yours, but hey. Thats life.

Not to be disagreeable, but actually, I did specifically mention scarring:

How are you going to shape it so there are no seams or scars?