Back in 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger directed an episode of “Tales From the Crypt” in which an old man spends his fortune replacing his old body parts with young ones, ironically giving this youngster an old body, with a young heart…and millions in cash. It was a clever gag, and science fiction, at least until now.
A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years, explains The Guardian.
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off, they add.
He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.
“If society doesn’t want it, I won’t do it. But if people don’t want it, in the US or Europe, that doesn’t mean it won’t be done somewhere else,” he said. “I’m trying to go about this the right way, but before going to the moon, you want to make sure people will follow you.”
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