Transplants!

[Metal Koola]

Originally posted by HellFighter 17

Originally posted by Bra

Originally posted by Cell
Think about how many rabbits they killed trying to get one successfully altered. Kinda scary.

Better rabbits than people. =\

They were already doing it to people. >.>

That was in China, and it was the first transplant of it's kind. They have not done it on humans there. It's still in the early stages of research. The rabbit that they put on was probably already dead, and the rabbit is perfectly healthy, I really don't see it as being "too" inhumane. In the grand scheme of things it was more helpful than anything else.

Also... there are many laws passed that say it is illegal to test such things on humans. Though I do agree that if they're willing to pay the participant, they should make it legal.

Originally posted by Android 20
Actually, I believe my dad's law firm is in charge of the legal aspects of face transplants and the like. There's currently a bit of worry about what sort of identity issues this could cause, should it eventually be allowed for humans to do to themselves. It's a touchy subject, and I don't see the point in making face transplants availabe to the typical public. We don't need them, we've got our own damn faces, and should be happy with what we have. Only if we get in some permanently disfiguring accident that would prevent us from leading a normal life should we consider allowing someone to have a face transplant.

I can't see this ever going on and becoming a typical plastic surgery routine, namely because it would require a recently deceased person to be the donor for the person. There are not many people who allow their organs to be harvested for science once they have passed, and because of that it's like this will only be done in the situations you mentioned such as scarring and such.


on a related topic, this was done to a person in the US (I believe) where the woman had tried to kill herself by ODing on pills, and her dog came and started biting her in the face. She woke up, and had the surgery done, and they put the dog to sleep.

In my opinion the dog was trying to save her life by biting her, the only way it could think of waking her up. Chances are if she had the dog all it's life and this was the first time it started biting her, the dog wasn't trying to just maul her. I think they should have switched positions, and they just should have put the woman down.