[Caael]

I'm sure that many of you have heard about face transplants. It is an operation never before perfomed fully.

Basically, if a persons face is burnt severely, then they have the option to have a face transplant. The face is taken from a dead person, so the person who has the transplant has to take drugs to keep the skin alive, and the drugs can cause cancer.

So is a face transplant really worth it?

[Ravenblade]

Interesting question - im not sure its really a question that can be answered from our point of view as we havent been in the situation. I would reckon that whether or not its worth it depends on the person undergoing it. If it was me, i would go for it regardless of the risks - our society looks down very hard on unnattractive people =/

[Caael]

I'd stick with my burnt face. To be honest, i'd rather be alive without a face, than with cancer with a face.

[pHantOm]

I wouldnt want someone elses face, simply because that person died and now you look just like them. Imagine if you ran into one of the dead persons family members? They would be shocked lol.

[Aquamarine]

I would never even dream of doing that, even if I were ugly. I think doing it is sick.

[Caael]

@ Phantom

Well I think that before the person died they would have volunteered their body to be used for research, or the surgeons would have gotten the dead pesons permission.

[Aquamarine]

Dead persons permision huh?
"Hello, my name is Dr. Green, can we transplant your face please?"
*dead man doesn't answer*
"I'll take that as a 'Yes' "

[TheEnglishman]

I can understand why people would want to have a new face rather than live with a damaged one, but I don't like the idea personally. It would be a bit weird having someone else's face.

[pHantOm]

Would you honestly be able to look in the mirror and be happy with what you saw?

[TheEnglishman]

pHantOm, on Oct 27 2006, 09:28 PM, said:

Would you honestly be able to look in the mirror and be happy with what you saw?

Do you mean if I'd been damaged and kept my own face, or if I'd had a transplant? I guess one would be horrible and the other would just feel wrong.

[Golden Legacy]

Unless it was a truly severe case, I'm against the idea of a face transplant. I just don't think it is right nor even fair to have the face of another, and having to take drugs on and on is just not appealing at all.

Though Raven brings up a good point, that unfortunately society looks harshly down on unattractive features, even if they can't be helped.

[Toasty]

There's such a thing as skin grafting nowadays. It works kinda like the clone tool in photo shop. The doctors take skin cells from an unburnt part of you (i.e. your foot), clone it in a way, and graft it onto your skin. I'm not sure how the process works, they may not even clone your skin, but they do take cells from an unburnt part of you, like your foot or arm, etc., so I'd rather go with that.

[I'm Always BROKE]

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Whoa wtf? Yeah I heard about it, but does the drugs can cause cancer?

Nothing, and I really mean nothing is worth the change of getting cancer. It's one of the worst decises that caused may deaths all over the world.

Yeah sure you'd look very unattractive, but I'm sure there are other ways of curing burn wounds. And having a piece of skin which isn't yours... That's not something I would call fresh or comforable. I couldn't live with it atleast.

And I'm very sure it's pretty expensive to. ;) Another reason of not doing it. Besides, there are lotions and cremes which can hide things as pimples and moules (sp?)... Perhaps they work on burn wounds aswell?

[Eugine]

I honestly think people are getting more considerate for the disabled. But doing all that just too please other people? I highly doubt.

[pHantOm]

DiddyKong, on Oct 29 2006, 09:15 AM, said:

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Whoa wtf? Yeah I heard about it, but does the drugs can cause cancer?

Dude, everything causes cancer.

Eatting too many carrots im sure causes a cancer, we just havent found it yet.

*sarcasm*

[Golden Legacy]

Unless I'm mistaken, wasn't there a French woman a while back who received a partial face transplant because a part of her face and lips were burned off?

[TheEnglishman]

Yeah there was. I think she was the first to have the transplant. It was big news at the time.

[pHantOm]

But it was only used to reconstruct her original face, an entire face transplant is much different, taking on the appearence of someone else is just...wrong...

[Golden Legacy]

But didn't they use the skin of some other person to reconstruct her face? I know that it's not the same as an entire face transplant, but I think it was an example of a situation where it might have been necessary.