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?

[yuna*]

I think it's wrong. Why should you alter your face features that you are borned with? WTH..this is eff up, geesss people should learn to live with what they have. Even if you are involved in a accident, it's too bad then.

[rinchan089]

I think it's wrong. Why should you alter your face features that you are borned with? WTH..this  is eff up, geesss people should learn to live with what they have. Even if you are involved in a accident, it's too bad then.

No offense, but you are ignorant. The people who would be recieving face transplants have faces and bodies that can barely be considered human (no offense to them either, I'm fighting on their behalf). I'm sure if you were in their situation, you would give your life for a new face.

It's not your fault you were hit by a drunk driver when you were in your twenties and your car exploded into flames. After recieving second and third degree burns all over your body, having massive amounts of decaying skin removed, living through immense amounts of pain and suffering, and being forced to give up the bright future you longed for just because you don't look at all normal, I think you'd rather die than live another minute without a face.

OhXiet_ItzDonnA  Posted Sep 26 2005, 4:27 PM
  Ugh. That is real nasty. Why would someone take something from the dead? Isnt that disrespectful?

Has anyone been reading ANYTHING that has been said in this conversation? Geez...

By what you have just said, you think that if your kidneys failed or you had congestive heart failure, you wouldn't have the right to recieve a new organ just because someone else isn't using it anymore.

My beloved, but sadly deceased, grandfather had many health problems later in life. He had 2 heart attacks, a lung removed, kidney failure and a heart transplant. If he didn't have the heart transplant when he did and was given 10 more years to live, he would never have seen my parents get married. He would never have have lived to see his grandchildren grow older. He would have missed out on what he would later call the best years of his life.

If he did not recieve a heart from a brain dead 17 year old boy who died soon after he drove into a tree, my grandfather would have died a week before my parents wedding. My life would be forever changed and so would everyone else he touched.

So, in conclusion, I believe it's okay to take from the dead if it will allow someone else to have a better quality of life.

Rin-chan