Italian doctor: 'Head implants help people to approach immortality'

Sergio Canavero, a neurosurgeon Italy, said he could perform the world's first human head transplant in 2017, suggesting that someday it will create immortality.

Head implants help people approach immortality

In a recent interview with LaPress.it, Canavero said he had found sponsors financially for the project, many doctors and surgical specialists ready to join the transplant . According to Canavero, money supported means that someone truly believes in his project. The surgery will cost about $ 10 million and 150 people, including doctors and assistants.

Dr. Sergio Canavero, a primitive man who can match a head in 2017. (Photo: oggi.it)

The Italian doctor affirmed that his method would be the first step to achieve immortality . "We are one step closer to the goal of prolonging life indefinitely, because when a new body can be given to 80-year-olds, they can live for 40 years," IB Times quoted Canavero as saying, believing that the technology will be completed in 5 years, bringing unimaginable results and completely changing the story of mankind.

Earlier this year, Canavero announced it was possible to perform the world's first human head transplant in the next two years and confirmed that within a year, the first transplant recipient could speak and walk normally. According to the procedure, the patient's brain is cooled to 10-15 degrees Celsius to prolong the life of the cell in the absence of oxygen. After that, Canavero used a scalpel to cut through the spinal cord and used a special bio-glue to connect the head to the new body. The patient will be in a coma state for 3-4 weeks and immunosuppressed.

Not long after that, a Russian youth named Valery Spiridonov volunteered to become the first person to have a head transplant with a body part taken from a brain-dead donor. However, many experts in the world are skeptical and think that patients will not be able to survive after the spinal cord is completely cut off, if there is life, it will be crazy.

In response to criticism, Canavero believes that people feel scared because they have never produced the same results, along with psychological limitations such as the fear of prolonging life forever. One of the reasons for criticism comes from the thought of worrying that this method is only limited to the rich, because only they can afford the cost.