The first transplant will face a feeling worse than death

Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old Russian man, became the first person in the world to voluntarily participate in a head transplant, ie attaching his head to another body to cure a rare disease that caused him to be tied tied with wheelchair.

According to Independent, the surgery is expected to be performed by Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero within 36 hours, involving 150 doctors and nurses.

Although Spiridonov has prepared for the new body's ability to reject the grafted head and he will die, a neuroscience researcher believes that if he does this operation, Spiridonov will have to go through the feelings. worse than death.

The first transcript may take place in 2017. (Source: independent).

"There are things worse than death, and I don't expect them to happen to anyone," said Dr. Hunt Batjer, president of the American Association of Neurosurgeons.

The problem, he says, is that transplanting a head into another body, including resuming the spine and blood vessels is something no one has ever tried and is a madness.

Arthur Caplan, medical ethics director at the Langone Medical Center, New York University, said Dr. Canavero was a "crazy guy" and believed that the first transplant "would be overwhelmed by differences. of the new body and will probably go mad ".

45 years ago, in 1970, a case was done with monkeys. The animal only survived for 8 days after the operation, because the new body eliminated the head, and the monkey could not breathe or move because the spinal cord between the head and body was not correctly matched.

It is expected that Canavero's head transplant surgery will be conducted in 2017.