Recently right before bedtime I read an article on Facebook about a surgeon who believes that within the next two years he will be able to perform head transplants.
Well, bully for him! I tried in vain to figure why anyone would need a head transplant, but it just didn’t make sense. Maybe if some poor soul had a decapitating injury and by chance his body was kept viable and another poor schmuck found his torso ripped to shreds yet his head was intact a surgeon could put the head with the torso and voilá! Frankenperson!
I read parts of the article to Studly and we brainstormed ways in which it might work. Then I went to bed and the topic entered my dreams for an epic, ethical nightmare:
Three children, two boys and one girl each suffering from an incurable head-eating disease. All will die within 24 hours if a new head isn’t found to replace their defective ones. One head becomes available. It is compatible with each of the three children who all went on the transplant list at the same time. I have to decide who gets the head.
I awakened in a cold sweat and I have no idea who got the head.
That’ll teach me to stay online too close to bedtime.
Peace, people.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
Because (true this is) I take things literally (much to the annoyance of any and all who have and still do know me) was this a full head transplant including the brain or their brain’s into a donor skull with ears and things? You’ll understand I have to know!
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Well, you’ve raised a great question. I took it to mean the whole shebang–head, brains, pointy ears. But now I need to go find and reread the article. There are some brains I wouldn’t mind substituting for my own.
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Interesting for if it was a whole head/brain transplant who would the ‘new’ person be? Would the child who had the transplant be defined by it’s heart (as theists would possibly see it) or would the previous owner of the bonce merely be the recipient of a new body…and by to what name would it answer…crikey young lady I feel a skit coming on!
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It is mind juggling. I mean boggling.
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Sometimes/most times ‘likes’ are without reason yet this comment I ‘like’!
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And I liked your like. It’s the circle of life
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