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Face Transplants On The Way
kwertii writes "A British surgeon claims face transplants are just a few months off. The procedure "could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears, nose, skin and bone from a recently deceased person." The problem? Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"
Many people around the world are donating much more than a face for a quick buck. So, yes, some people will donate it if it doesn't kill them.
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Repeat :) It's even referring to the same story.
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Okay, the editors are human and make mistakes.. you can't expect everyone to know what everyone else has put on the site.. but this is a repost of front page news from yesterday.
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If it's a repost of an old article, it's understandable.. but articles that are still on the front page? C'mon guys, there's just no excuse for that.
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Sure, the dead have no more use for a face than a liver. If you want my face, your desperation would no doubt elicit my sympathy (except that I'd be preoccupied with the whole being dead business).
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They but a new face on this story.
Then re-used it
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...from yesterday's news!
Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"
I am planning to give any vital organs I may still have after I am dead but I refuse the reste to become consummer goods.
If people want a face, I guess plastic surgery is a better option.
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This is not the kind of story one should forward to their spouse!
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I guess it's about to come to Urth....
Look, I normally hate the "this is a duplicate" posts just as much as the next guy, but this is just stunning.
I can see someone forgetting an old story that was posted. Maybe even something as young as a month, really. And I can see two posts being placed at the same time because the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. But almost precisely 24 hours apart? That's wonderful!
Face Transplants On The Way
On Thursday November 28, @11:55AM with 36 comments
kwertii writes "A British surgeon claims face transplants are just a few months off. The procedure "could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears,...
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Getting More Face Time
On Wednesday November 27, @12:07PM with 239 comments
ApharmdB writes "The BBC has a story about the possibility of performing face transplants within the year. Obviously, people are worried about the ethical...
Section: Science > Science
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Oy vey. I read that as "face striping" and started postulating redundant arrays of inexpensive faces.
"I'm not a hypocrite - my face is simply configured for RAIF 1".
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Kundalini wants his face back....
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
About who would want to donate their face as much as I would be about who would want to go around with a dead person's face. But then I look at the Micheal Jackson and/or Cher pics, and it suddenly all makes sense.
Yeah.. right.. I wanna kiss the lips from some dead person.. Totally sexy.
What kind of sick individual would use this procedure if it was available? And who would touch them with even a 10 foot pole if they did?
And then, it all becomes clear: Michael Jackson
... for some reason. Some of his books, Johnny Mnemonic most notably I think, have gangs that surgically alter their faces to look like animals. For example, there was one gang that had massive fangs "installed", along with complete alternations to facial bone structure and skin. Kind of weird, hearing (the second time) about this story on Slashdot, I'm wondering if we'll ever reach the point where these kinds of alterations will get cheap enough that they could be used as Gibson wrote about.
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Have graphical depictions of nude women tattooed to your forehead and cheeks before death.
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The repeat is here while the original is STILL in the front page! At this rate, the duplicates will soon be posted before the originals.
The operation is to be called a 'Faceplant'
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I'd wager that Michael Jackson is going to be the first person to sign up for this procedure. :]
While the first idea that comes to our minds might be getting a face transplant becuase we want to be more beautiful... The real application of this thing is probably stuff like burn victims etc... in which case the risk doesn't sound so bad after all.
This brings a totally new meaning to Shaddap your face!!!
- Organized Crime (mafia et al)
- Terrorists
- Secret Services
I would even guess some of these have already performed this sort of operation at some point, in order to go underground.Stop the brainwash
Who needs a 'brand new' dead face? Botox kills the one you already have!
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I can't believe the amount of "this is a repeat!!!" posts... Mistakes happen, just when they happen here, a WHOLE LOT of people see them.
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If the guy's face you borrowed was on a mafia hitlist?
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Bam! Bam!.....
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Face auctions on e-bay
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I know a lot of janitors who probably have twice as much dignity as you. The elitism of the technology crowd really gets under my skin. I see it from my peers, and I sometimes see it from myself.
When it comes down to it, I know a good number of janitors and service-industry employees with whom I'd rather associate than CS or IS majors.
I'd rather be 'just' a janitor than a prick.
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A camera? Pfwh, we should get him to tatoo all the /. articles on his body...
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I just fscked up big time.....
My girlfriend is works in cosmetic surgery, so thinking she might be interested i just fowarded the link to her. Unfortunately, she has also got a pig ugly face, and I am scared that she may take it the wrong way....
I prefer to think of this type of occurence as proof of my ability to predict the future. Why, tomorrow, I bet we'll learn to how test internet connections with sound!
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The name of the movie is stupidly enough, not "Face Off." It is "Face/Off."
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And yes, that squishy noise was pretty amusing.
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Like any other foreign tissue you might want to integrate into your body, your immune system will fight to kill it (i.e. reject it). In order to stem this, you would be forced to take various anti-rejection meds which are notorious for having many unpleasant side-effects, even then rejection is still not guaranteed (can imagine having your body reject your FACE!?!?). Oh yeah and there is no going back if you change your mind, or if you get infected and lose the whole thing.
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Sign me up!
This would be interesting however, if they were to use cloned fetal tissue created from your own body, in which case rejection is a non-issue and you could look 18 for the rest of your life.
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You have to love the BBC. The surgery picture is a generic picture: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38516000/jpg/_
It could just as easily be for a news story entitled "Descending colon transplants from hyenas 'on the Horizon'"...
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This crime appears to be occurring in large cities and apparently is well known to the police community. Here is a typical scenario.
Business traveler goes to a bar after a long day at work, and while sitting there, meets a fairly attractive young woman and they hit it off.
Next thing he knows, he wakes up in a strange hotel room, he's flopped in a chair and his head is wrapped in a bandage. Written in lipstick a note on the table reads: "call 911, and don't touch your face!"
He calls 911 on the phone next to the chair. He tells the 911 operator his story; she already knows where he's going with this and in fact has already called for paramedics to race to his hotel room.
She tells him to very carefully reach in through the bandage and touch his chin. She asks if he can feel a five o'clock shadow. He does this and tells her he feels something more like steak.
The operator tells him to remain calm, stay in the chair and not to move, the paramedics are on their way. Apparently this is not another crime of organ harvesting....but this time, the havesting of the faces. Because of the demand for face transplants and the shortage of faces, there's now a flourishing black market in face harvesting.
For now this traveler is masked and awaiting his own face transplant. Lucky for him, the black market is thriving. He probably won't have to wait too long for another traveler to meet a nice looking young woman in a bar so he can have a new face.
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Would you [donate your face]?
Hell no! I'm far too ugly to be donating my face. Just like people who die of heart attacks shouldn't donate their hearts and people with skin cancer shouldn't donate their skin, ugly people should not donate their faces.
yeah, but even after your plug, the face transplant story on plastic has only 22 comments, as opposed to the 207 comments at time of writing here on slashdot.
Maybe the repeats on slashdot are intentional and allow the many users who weren't logged on when the story was on the front page to catch up on the state of the world.
It would depend on how much of your brain they take. Maybe one fall victim might just need a motor cortex, and some other poor guy needs an optic lobe.