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randome

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24. However...

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #23)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 03:32 PM

Feb 2015

...the limited availability of healthy bodies might lead to the kind of research that gives us artificial means of keeping a head alive. Not like what we see in Futurama, of course.

I'll be first in line when an artificial body is perfected. Mother Nature goofed when she gave us expiration dates.
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First human head transplant could happen in two years [View all] n2doc Feb 2015 OP

Since your brain *IS* you........ PlanetaryOrbit Feb 2015 #1

control the head....the body will follow! VanillaRhapsody Feb 2015 #3

I'd rather think of it as a "body transplant" eShirl Feb 2015 #2

that poor little monkey... eShirl Feb 2015 #4

That was my thought also. nt Mojorabbit Feb 2015 #12

My first thought too. The horror done to animals by humans is appalling! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2015 #18

+1000 marym625 Feb 2015 #28

+ another 1000 SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2015 #39

Or we could just accept that no one lives forever. nt geek tragedy Feb 2015 #5

That's no way to get ahead. nt pinboy3niner Feb 2015 #7

Booooo! nt geek tragedy Feb 2015 #10

Nobody believes that. Bobbie Jo Feb 2015 #13

Then why even have medicine? Oktober Feb 2015 #8

There is preserving life and health, and then there is this. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #15

Naw, it leads to more research and further discoveries, which is always a good thing. randome Feb 2015 #19

Except that for someone to take advantage of a body transplant, someone else geek tragedy Feb 2015 #23

However... randome Feb 2015 #24

Surely a body transplant? Bosonic Feb 2015 #6

ew! marym625 Feb 2015 #9

'heady stuff' bwahahahaaa spanone Feb 2015 #11

Hats off to the researchers! randome Feb 2015 #14

Say what?? This makes no sense. cbayer Feb 2015 #16

Dems should be safe for 2016 then Capt. Obvious Feb 2015 #17

Well, 2010's past.......... PlanetaryOrbit Feb 2015 #22

Where have you been? randome Feb 2015 #26

Reagan's head might be particularly easy to manage, as it never had anything in it LeftishBrit Feb 2015 #34

The obligatory post from that cinematic masterpiece, "The Thing With Two Heads". randome Feb 2015 #20

Or, you could get a 2nd head attached to you..to use for backup LeftinOH Feb 2015 #21

If you wanna backup... pinboy3niner Feb 2015 #25

This one's better... longship Feb 2015 #29

Shit, that means Cheney can theoretically live forever. nt hifiguy Feb 2015 #27

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Octafish Feb 2015 #31

LoL! hifiguy Feb 2015 #32

this is only for the super rich. Mosby Feb 2015 #30

Finally! A cure for baldness! alcibiades_mystery Feb 2015 #33

Is this a joke? How do you keep the head to transplant healthy and alive? Rex Feb 2015 #35

I don't get it vankuria Feb 2015 #36

I'll volunteer Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #37

If they can cut the spinal cord and reattach it so that it works correctly, wont paralyzed people be stevenleser Feb 2015 #38

Futurama, here we come! nt MrScorpio Feb 2015 #40

For practice, the docs are going to first remove Boehner's head from his ass NightWatcher Feb 2015 #41