Full face transplant?

dinahsmum · 26-10-2006, 11:35 AM

Sounds a bit horrid doesn't it, but I think it might sound great if I had had my face melted off in a fire .....
Any thoughts?

Mags · 26-10-2006, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by dinahsmum

Sounds a bit horrid doesn't it, but I think it might sound great if I had had my face melted off in a fire .....
Any thoughts?

Glad you've joined in the spirit of things DM !!

Looks like you are getting a few hot flushes there!

When I saw the heading I thought you had found something for my Christmas list!!

alexgirl73 · 26-10-2006, 01:00 PM

I don't have a problem with this, if it can help someone horribly disfigured by accident or fire, why not? Is it really any different to any other type of organ donation?

Mags · 26-10-2006, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by alexgirl73

I don't have a problem with this, if it can help someone horribly disfigured by accident or fire, why not? Is it really any different to any other type of organ donation?

Oops...I didn't realise DM was serious in this thread, I thought she was referring to her new avatar

Sorry DM!

dinahsmum · 26-10-2006, 01:07 PM

No it's not is it - just takes a bit of getting used to.
I can imagine people who have grown up 'normal' and then been disfigured wanting it - maybe those who sadly are born with a deformity (what a horrible word) just get used to being who they are and wouldn't want to be 'normal'.

I agree Alex - I'll have no need of my body once I go cold. Am thinking of donating myself to 'medical science' - i.e. to be lovingly dissected by medical students. Except they always give their cadaver a name and I don't want to be a Doris!
I carry a donor card, have completed the online registration and told my OH to give away whatever anyone wants.
Have you signed up?
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/h...me_a_donor.jsp

Kim · 26-10-2006, 03:05 PM

Sounds awful, but yes I agree no worse than any other type of transplant. I suppose the controvesy surrounding it is that you look different, would be hard for relatives. However, if you had been disfisgured, e.g in a fire I would go for it!

dinahsmum · 26-10-2006, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Mags

Oops...I didn't realise DM was serious in this thread, I thought she was referring to her new avatar

Sorry DM!

That's OK Mags - though I did go

..... then i decided you were answering a question I hadn't asked. Put it down to your threatened cold!

yola · 26-10-2006, 03:28 PM

It doesn't bother me one bit. They showed a computer simulation of a face transplant on TV this morning, and it's a strange amalgam of donor's and recipient's facial characteristics.

If it can help someone live a full life I'm all for it. And I do remember all the hoohaa when the first organ transplants took place . . . lots of references to Frankenstein; and now it's commonplace.

alexgirl73 · 26-10-2006, 04:06 PM

I've registered now, always carried a card but hadnt registered on the website.

Kazz · 26-10-2006, 09:38 PM

I think anything they can do and someone wants doing like this "all power to them" a friend from junior school's older brother's friend had a petrol tank explode in his face, I didn;t know him but "knew of him" so to speak, he couldn't cope at all, a couple of years ago I heard he had comitted suicide.
Not sure if this would have helped, but it may have it may have.

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