Doctor Sergio Canavero is raising funds to conduct the first ever human head transplant, and it could be funded by Mark Zuckerberg. The Italian neurosurgeon has already conferenced with doctors in Russia who are willing to carry out the surgery.
Doctor Makes Video For Support Towards the World’s First Head Transplant
The patient and recipient of this procedure is Valeri Spiridonov, a 31-year-old Russian computer scientists. He was born with Wedin-Hoffmann disease, a rare degenerative illness. He wants to become the first person to have a human head transplant, which would be carried out by Dr Canavero. Canavero has declared that he has a 90% chance of success. If the surgery is actually successful, he could make medical history.
This surgery could cost about $12 million, so Canavero is calling for the world’s billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to help fund the surgery.
Doctor Calls Out Mark Zuckerberg to Fund Head Transplant
Dr. Canavero specifically called to Mark Zuckerberg, saying that ‘he comes to mind since he has just been sponsoring live extension research and this is certainly a step toward live extension’. Apparently, the doctor has already been in talks with another team of surgeons in China, who have been carrying out the surgery on cadavers. They claim to be making true progress toward the first successful human head transplant.
What Would Happen if Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Get Involved
This breakthrough would bring medical surgery to an entirely new level. If billionaires such as these invested in this surgery, then the technology needed to carry out this surgery can definitely be developed.
This surgery is ambitious to say the least. This call to arms is a great step forward, but the medical equipment available is probably not good enough to make this a successful surgery just yet. There’s probably a lot more research and development that needs to go into this, and the world is probably not ready for what comes after this kind of procedure. The patient is getting his entire head replaced, and there’s a lot to be said about the ethical repercussions of this kind of surgery. Word from these billionaires has yet to be heard.
