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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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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/1
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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Oy vey. I read that as "face striping" and started postulating redundant arrays of inexpensive faces.
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... 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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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.
Face auctions on e-bay
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