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?

[*mzkandi*]

Why would anyone want a dead persons face..... Thats more than disturbing. This topic could lead into a debate but I shall where this goes.

[*krnxswat*]

Is the desire to look nice worth risking your life? 

well you wouldn't know cause you don't have a disfigured face, do you?










cut it out.

This post has been edited by mzkandi: Sep 19 2005, 04:16 PM

[*jooleeah*]

^
Aw, Seon Ho. :/

Anyway, that sounds kind of freaky. I wouldn't really want a dead person's face.

[*incoherent*]

a dead persons face? whatever happened to just getting plastic surgery?

[iheartjohn]

YESSSS.


Now I just have to wait until Rachel or Elba die.

[xmkaex]

...dead person?!?!

[canard bonaparte]

I imagine that the face would have to be from a fresh corpse.
You can't have the skin deteriorating.

For the person with the disfigured face, I don't think it's a matter of looking nice, I think it's a matter of looking "normal." I imagine the people wanting the face transplant are the ones that feel terribly out of place, so much so that they won't even go outside for fear of the reaction of others. I bet they also feel it's worth it to risk their life to feel "normal" and to see if it actually works, so that people with the same problem can know whether or not it works.

I don't know if it will work, but it's a nice idea.

[Aoiro]

So very interesting.
But I would never have a dead person's face.
Even if they dies like, 10 minutes ago.
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[LEGITERICJONES]

Yo, we need to hook you up with one. Just playing. Thats akward, How do they smile if its a dead persons face? Would they be able to control the cover persons flesh?

[*digital.fragrance*]

oh that's just wrong.... but beyond that, imagine the adverse reactions... allergies, skin contaminants.... aka bacteria exclusive to that face..... oh my

[Heathasm]

hey...reminds me of that movie face off...cool!

[*incoherent*]

Yo, we need to hook you up with one.

stop trying to act like seon ho. he already said that.
well, kiera editted it, but it's been said and it was just as stupid then as it is now...especially since you're really new.

[Heewee]

I could see how that would be beneficial for people who have needed surgery upon surgery to reconstruct their face after something tragic has happened. However, I think it would be more than a bit strange to be walking around with somebody else's face on. Nobody would recognize you and people who may have known the dead person might get emotional or freaked out if they saw you. I think it may feel like you're walking around in somebody else's body, even though it's just their face. To add to all these facts, I think that there will be major health issues that somebody who is the recipient of a face transplant would have to face. Personally, I would rather be unique and be my own person that where somebody else's face.

[LEGITERICJONES]

stop trying to act like seon ho. he already said that.
well, kiera editted it, but it's been said and it was just as stupid then as it is now...especially since you're really new.

Why would I want to be asian? I didn't even notice he said that and with my crappy internet it would take me 5 minutes to load the page.

[AngryBaby]

stop trying to act like seon ho. he already said that.
well, kiera editted it, but it's been said and it was just as stupid then as it is now...especially since you're really new.

hes not trying to act like seon ho believe or not he didnt invent bluntness, pssshht i said the same thing in my head.

but anywho, how can you wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and be happy with a dead persons face on yours? that would like, haunt me haha.

[EmmalieV]

I dont want a dead persons identity

THINK ABOUT THIS;

when the dead persons family sees this person , theyll shit in their pants. I know I would. & even if the persons family give them permission it will still be weird.

^Oops for people thinking about what I thought.

Another form tells donor families that the person receiving the face will not resemble their dead loved one. The recipient should look similar to how he or she did before the injury because the new skin goes on existing bone and muscle, which give a face its shape.

[JustAnotherTeena...]

Ew, just...ew. That would be horrid. I think I'd rather have a disfigured face...

Oh, & for all the people that were talking about how you would look like the dead person & such- try actually read the artical before posting:

Another form tells donor families that the person receiving the face will not resemble their dead loved one. The recipient should look similar to how he or she did before the injury because the new skin goes on existing bone and muscle, which give a face its shape.

[*mipadi*]

Yo, we need to hook you up with one. Just playing. Thats akward, How do they smile if its a dead persons face? Would they be able to control the cover persons flesh?

They could still make facial expressions--the nerves in the new face work, and the existing muscle is kept.

[technicolour]

^ Uh yeah.

Still. That's a bit on the GROSS-HURL-BLAH side.

[AngryBaby]

ph, well if they use only the skin to fil in spots, thats not so horrid then

[*krnxswat*]

Why would I want to be asian?

THE QUESTION IS, WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO BE ASIAN?!?!?!?!?! OH MY GAHHH

[misskentucky]

I wouldn't want a deap person's face on my face. I'd just get reconstructive surgery, plastic surgery.

[shortiiex]

ew taht is really disgusting
but how much does it pay?

[eli5e]

ummmm ..that is really disturbing ..cause see if somone you know dies, and then someone who's opt in doing this takes their face.. .they'll be walking around in that person's face ..T_T