HEAD- OR BODY TRANSPLANT?

Technology soars. This is a tangible fact that we experience everyday: we have grown with our mobile devices and robots ease our daily life and taking over the household. But facilitate daily life aspects is just a small facet of all technology can do. Last week I saw on the news that within two years it would be possible to transplant a head to another body. WHUT?! Yes, a head transplant. Besides the fact that it is insane that this will be possible in the near future, I also think it's quite lurid: it reminds me of movies where bodies have a head sewn on it.

Anyway, the reasons are of course medical substantiated: people who's bodies have been destroyed by severe diseases. And if you put it like this, we could practically speaking live forever. I mean, if a head can be transplanted on another body, a body can also be transplanted to a new head, right? And of course, it also brings a lot of ethical hassles with it. Are you still you when the body you are using used to be of someone else? What happens with your identity?

I do cheer for technological revolutions to prevent diseases, but personally I do think a head transplant crosses the line. Ethically, there are issues, but also people involved. What about the relatives of the donor body? And, this mind sound as lurid as the transplant itself, but what is the return? Is such a transplant worth everything that comes along with it? Risks? Investments? As said, I do cheer prevention of diseases, but what is the limit? Should one not accept that its time has come? Does it improves ones Quality of Life, going through such operations, not knowing who you will be, all for staying alive?

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