No $hit: I heard it in a bar

[sandy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029376/Russian-volunteer-head-transplant-operation-Valery-Spiridonov-says-no-choice-undergo-7-5million-procedure-controversial-Italian-surgeon-Dr-Sergio-Canavero.html

[Jess from VA]

Being the type that always plans ahead, what I'm wondering is.... where does one find a donor?

I don't think the morgue works.

Remember  Abby Normal?
http://youtu.be/6PMwB4Gb8nk 

[Bighead]

Even if it could be done and the patient survived he would no longer have a muscle wasting disease but paralyzed from the eyes down and would have to have a respirator to breath  

[Serk]

Being the type that always plans ahead, what I'm wondering is.... where does one find a donor?

I don't think the morgue works.

Remember  Abby Normal?
http://youtu.be/6PMwB4Gb8nk 

When my cousin had a traumatic brain injury from an ATV wreck a year ago I learned a lot more about organ donation than I previously knew. Donors for most major organs are legally dead but still have lower function of their brain running. My cousin lay in a hospital bed for nearly a week, legally dead, with a pulse and still breathing while surgeons and organ recipients could be brought in to harvest all the usable parts.

I'd assume a whole body donation would be a similar situation. Someone who's had a traumatic brain injury and is dead, but with the lower functions of the brain still running could be a donor.

Will this work this time? Probably not. But, this is IMHO valuable for us to learn more about it and someday perhaps do this successfully.

[flatsixrider]

This is why I ride my bicycle in a charity event each year to raise money to increase awareness of the importance of organ donation.  It is so much more that a check box when you get a license.  Next Saturday I'll be riding for the cause for my 5 straight year during which I've raised over $12k to help people make an educated decision. 

[RDAbull]

Being the type that always plans ahead, what I'm wondering is.... where does one find a donor?


Almost any federal politician would work.  Most of them wouldn't be missed and they are brain dead
by act and deed.

[dreamaker]

I don't know what to think about this, but I do wish one thing.  I wish they could find away for people to pull their heads out of their a$$. Look around, what do you think.

[Jess Tolbirt]

a glue-like substance called polyethylene glycol ...thats anti-freeze