Head Transplants Are Coming Soon

This is very hard for me to wrap my brain around, but there is an Italian surgeon who is very close to performing a head transplant.

His name is Sergio Canavero and he made big headlines back in 2013 when he said the first human head transplant is just years away. Now he is announcing that, if everything goes "smoothly," he will be performing said head transplant surgery on a Russian patient in China in December 2017!

The $11 million procedure is likely to take 36 hours and will require that the donor's and the patient's heads be severed at the same time with, as if it needs saying, a really, really sharp blade. Canavero says, "China wants to do it because they want to win the Nobel prize.

They want to prove themselves a scientific powerhouse. So it's the new space race." Still, there are plenty of critics who say the procedure is impossible, largely because of the problem of spinal cord fusion and organ rejection. But, taking a cue from the Donald Trump Twitter handbook, Canavero does not mince words and says his critics are all "ignorant."

I have a million questions about this, but I honestly don't even know where to begin. What do you think about this breakthrough? If it was medically necessary, would you do it?

Source: Gizmodo