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First Face Transplant

Dec 01, 2005 16:12

Would you be willing to wear the face of a dead man, if it meant looking and living normally again? A 38-year old French woman apparently is, as she is the first ever recipient of a controversial face transplant.

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hearts and minds anonymous December 1 2005, 21:41:31 UTC

“a heart that was still beating. That means there's still a possibility of the donor waking up”

Amazing that there are still people out there that subscribe to this pre-enlightenment notion of the heart as the center of being. The heart is one of many systems each essential to life and none more significant than the others, excluding perhaps the system that organizes, synchronizes, and controls those other systems (and I'll give you a clue I'm not talking about the pancreas here). When will we finally accept that brain-dead might as well be dead-dead. Cold yes, but at least it opens the door for some French chick look --normal-- again.
As far as rejection... that’s why we all got to get on the stem-cell bandwagon.