Dead person to live person scalp transplants a reality?!

[uncomfortable man]

I agree with amrod. After years of suffering from being bald, I can get over the idea of having a dead man's scalp w/ full hair grafted to my own head. Do they have to remove your existing scalp first? I would think so. I don't care, I just want this nightmare to end already.

Why not just do massive FUE over a time period, and then take the immuno suppressant drugs?

I don't have the best donor and I heard you can harvest more hairs with strip since it's cheaper that way. I also have to see how I respond to the meds, although I don't see myself loosing THAT much more hair from what I have left. Multiple procedures is also a frightening prospect with the strong possibility of running out of donor, having to resort to beard or body hair which everyone knows is a different texture altogether. And then of course there's the money issue, although I heard that WAMU issues loans for plastic surgery so it's not totally out of the option. I doubt that banks are giving out loans for this kind of thing in this economy though. hair transplant's become a riskier proposition the balder you become, but if at some point I am making enough money to fund such a venture then I would look into it in earnest.

 

[person]

I don't care about ethics, If I could get myself cloned I would take all the donor hair from the 'mini me' and then get the lil bald kid adopted.

 

[person]

I don't care about ethics, If I could get myself cloned I would take all the donor hair from the 'mini me' and then get the lil bald kid adopted.

I'm afraid your clone would have the same intentions :freaked2: .

Why afraid? If my clone wants to get cloned again good luck to him.

 

[IBM]

i love hair but not to the point of using hair from another person (puke mode).

 

[guy83]

Why is this considered sick by some of you? I mean people transplant and donate organs all the time, if I needed a liver transplant then I'd like to find a liver even if it's from someone who just died. The only reason I won't do this is because I don't want the immune suppressing drugs.

 

[Vinton Harper]

Why is this considered sick by some of you? I mean people transplant and donate organs all the time, if I needed a liver transplant then I'd like to find a liver even if it's from someone who just died.

I don't think you can really compare these. Your body is not going to stop functioning, with death following soon after, from losing your hair. As opposed to losing those other life-sustaining organs.


Personally, I wouldn't do it(scalp transplant). There has got to be a better way than this.

 

[mastery]

Hmmm I would do it... probably...

Having said that - surely there cannot be enough donors? Not really sure what percentage of young people die but surely demand would outstrip supply by a long way.

Is a creepy thought... BUT ... I would consider it.

PS - yes is the Simpsons episode where "Snake" (the local criminal with wavy hair) has his hair transplanted onto Homer's head resulting in Homer taking on his personality...

 

[Eureka]

mmm... I gotta say I don't really see the distinction.

If transplanting an organ is necessary for your quality of life.. it isn't gross? Yet wouldn't having a full head of hair improve your life? If your in fact someone who's bothered by hairloss?

Our organs are so similar I guess I just don't see much to be disgusted about here... It's not as if the dead need hair.

I doubt it will ever come to this though, Unless it's some underground Kevorkian chop shop.

 

[uncomfortable man]

Obama has already said that he plans to restore science to its rightful place again, IOW making scientific research a priority again. I'm relieved to hear that. Let's hope we can enjoy a few years of having full heads of hair again before the commet hits.