Face transplant

[Miss Shelf]

Read about the about-to-be-attempted face transplant today. Not sure I'd want to get it. Well, if my face was horribly disfigured I might think about it.

 

[SFG75]

Michael Jackson is having something done again?

 

[Miss Shelf]

Face transplant

I dunno. They say you won't look like the donor, but I wonder if it would be too Frankensteinish.

 

[Stewart]

I thought this was going to be a poll. I was going to vote yes, you should.

 

[Miss Shelf]

I thought this was going to be a poll. I was going to vote yes, you should.

I'm tempted to respond with some words that would likely get a strike against me.

 

[Jemima Aslana]

Read about the about-to-be-attempted face transplant today. Not sure I'd want to get it. Well, if my face was horribly disfigured I might think about it.

They only offer to horribly disfigured patients. There's no reason to risk all those possible consequences if it isn't *really* necessary. I really don't know what to think about it, though, it's a subject I fin it very difficult to relate to.

 

[RainbowGurl]

Michael Jackson is having something done again?

Michael Jackson is the first person many people think of when they hear the words face transplant

 

[mehastings]

I read the article last night, and I thought it was a really interesting idea. I think that for people who are really disfigured anything would be worth a shot. However, I agree with the assertion that recipients would be faced with a lot of emotional issues. People who receive organs often face a lot of guilt toward the donor. Just think how much worse it would be to be able to see that organ every single day in the mirror.

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Would any of you members allow your face to be donated after death, or agree for the donation of a loved one's face? Just curious because I know a lot of people who would not donate their eyes, and this seems to be about on the same level.

 

[Geenh]

I'm going to donate everything to anybody. It's only a shell to me.

 

[mehastings]

Would any of you members allow your face to be donated after death, or agree for the donation of a loved one's face? Just curious because I know a lot of people who would not donate their eyes, and this seems to be about on the same level.

Absolutely. I want to be cremated anyway. I think open casket wakes and funerals are morbid and bizarre. I'd be more than willing to donate anything.

 

[sirmyk]

This idea is so morbid. Reminds me of that movie Face/Off. Imagine recognizing someone, but it turns out that you just recognized the face of your dead friend on someone else's body...

 

[mehastings]

This idea is so morbid. Reminds me of that movie Face/Off. Imagine recognizing someone, but it turns out that you just recognized the face of your dead friend on someone else's body...

They say that the new face wouldn't be the same as the old one because it would be placed over the facial bones and muscles of the recipient. If you think about it, it makes sense. So much of what we look like is because of the shape of our faces.

 

[Ronny]

It sounds awfully painful, but I would have no problem donating as I think whatever they can use when I'm gone is fine with me.

 

[sirmyk]

I am officially offering my face (when I die) to the highest bidder. If either the bid or demand is high enough, I may consider slicing my face off sooner with the sharpened edge of a shovel. For images, please visit the "What we look like, round 2" thread.

 

[Miss Shelf]

What I would be afraid of, being the recipient, is that my body would reject it. What do you do then? do they have your old disfigured face in storage or something? would you have to wear a mask like the Mummy did before he regenerated? or would you have to go through reconstruction again, with them taking skin off your butt to make a new face?