A Russian has volunteered to have his head put on a new body:
A terminally ill Russian computer scientist has volunteered to have his head severed and transplanted onto a new body in a controversial procedure called HEAVEN, a news report said Wednesday.
Valery Spirodonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist from Vladimir, told Britain's the Daily Mail he was determined to put his head in the hands of controversial Italian surgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero, who claims he can conduct a full head transplant.
Spirodonov would be the first human to undergo the full head transplant. An attempt to provide a monkey with a new head at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1970 ended with the monkey dying after eight days, CNN reported.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-programmer-volunteers-for-frankenstein-head-transplant/518810.html
Note that the report does not say where the body will come from and also does not provide statistics concerning how many people with spinal injuries have been helped by the "magic ingredient". It also provides no hint whether the procedure may also have to be a sex change for Mr. Spirodonov if no male body is available.
By the way, I graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. If they really did transplant a monkey head there, it was done on the down low.
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