If This Ever Becomes A Reality Where Are They Going To Find The Undercarriages?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/first-human-head-transplant-could-happen-in-2017/ar-BBhYt0r

[maggiebee]

The mind boggles!

[wolf63]

but it would boggle on someone else's body maggiebee

[sandyRoe]

That saying, 'An old head on young shoulders', could take on an altogether different meaning.

[maggiebee]

Yes Sandy, as could "use your head".

[jim360]

I don't like where this is heading.

[AB Editor]

Maybe they'd just grow clone bodies.

Maybe we could live forever, just swapping out the body below. Assuming they can cure the degeneration of the brain.

[RATTER15]

Thats a scary thought actually!! We really need to stop busting every barrier to keep people alive.

I think we will one day get to the stage where are bodies will never be able to say enough is enough and we will be kept alive.

Look at all the dementia we now have and age related diseases, most of these people would have died naturally years ago, just where is the cut off point? The world is going crazy!!

[AB Editor]

Round of applause for Jim please.

[Bazile]

Is any body in favour ?

[sandyRoe]

While it's interesting that MSN gave us a heads up on this I'm not convinced its been properly thought out. Grizzled old heads on young bodies somehow doesn't seem right.

[-Talbot-]

OMG ..............it's ok for you ugly people but this will be me ,,,


http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/208/502065661_197d24aa30_z.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.flickr.com/photos/iant/502065661/&h=426&w=640&;tbnid=DPP0mfWIc6x_TM:&zoom=1&docid=7RpKtVTgbnScOM&ei=YvzuVJClHoKAUe3ugYAI&tbm=isch&ved=0CEAQMygWMBY

;oP

[jno]

you could do it under habeas corpus

[jno]

Grizzled old heads on young bodies somehow doesn't seem right.

Uh-huh...

http://dlisted.com/2014/09/15/a-new-gold-digger-idol-emerges-a-24-year-old-playboy-model-married-an-81-year-old-billionaire/

[sandyRoe]

What could she have ever seen in him? ^

[sandyRoe]

And imagine the dilemma for the proposed recipient if there was a dearth of undercarriages and the only one available was of the opposite sex.

[murraymints]

I want Rachel Hunters ! think she would mind losing her head ?

[AB Editor]

@RATTER: "Look at all the dementia we now have and age related diseases, most of these people would have died naturally years ago, just where is the cut off point? The world is going crazy!!"

I heard quite an interesting rephrasing of how we think about dementia from Julianne Moore, talking about "Still Alice"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3316960/

It's from the 13th Feb podcast here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/kermode

She talked about how it should stop being thought about as part of "getting old" and instead, a disease in it's own right. Cancer, she claims, was in the position of dementia a couple of decades ago. Why not treat dementia in the same way?

She built up this POV after discussing with lots of women either living/caring with/for someone with dementia, or in the early stages of it themselves.

I believe you have a more direct experience of this than me, so obviously I bow to that experience, but for people just setting out on a journey towards dementia's more overcast areas, a new way of thinking about it might be useful.

[Baldric]

I quite fancy Rachel Hunters body as well, but for completely different reasons to Murraymints hopefully!

;o)

[AB Editor]

(sorry, I started that reply just after RATTER posted his and then had a phonecall)

[murraymints]

Balders !! naughty naughty..remember your injuries !