I'm sorry, but this creeps me out: face transplant

[Rywill]

Someone call John Woo, because it turns out that face transplants (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/05/26/face.transplant/index.html) might become a reality. It's totally irrational and squeamish, but this sort of thing really, really creeps me out. I remember when that guy got a hand transplant, I was kind of creeped out by that, too. Even aside from my Dr. Strangelove / Battle Beyond the Stars nightmares, I just think about it and my toes curl. Imagine being that person. It'd be great to have a hand again, but I don't think I could get over knowing that it was someone else's hand, cut from their dead body. Is that any worse than a heart? Of course not, but I still would have trouble dealing with it, I think.

Just to be clear, I'm all for this. Yay for advances in medical science. But I personally have serious squeamishness problems with it.

[Ben Sones]

I would have thought that you, of all people, would have been ecstatic over the prospect of a face transplant. Hell, I'll even pay for it!

(Does it have to be a human face, or can they use a baboon or an emu or something?)

[Troy S Goodfellow]

Wouldn't it cause a little psychological trauma to walk down the street and see the face of your dearly departed on the body of someone else?

Troy

[Bill Dungsroman]

Wouldn't it cause a little psychological trauma to walk down the street and see the face of your dearly departed on the body of someone else?

Troy

He noted that the underlying skeletal structure of a recipient would differ from that of a donor, meaning that the recipient's face would look much different from that of the donor's.

Negative, Ghost Rider. At worst they would like a sibling, maybe.

[Rywill]

What about the trauma of looking in the mirror and seeing a totally different face than the one you're used to?

[beecubed]

well, i imagine that if you are a candidate for this surgery, the face you are used to is probably a horrible mishmash of scars and missing bits. getting a whole new face, even if it doesn't look like what you used to look like, would pretty damn great.

[Lunch of Kong]

Didn't I tell you guys about the dream I had a couple months ago, in which Marlon Brando and Tom Cruise were family friends who had come to visit me for my birthday?

Tom popped the trunk of his car to show me the results of his expensive bone transplant surgery: he now had interchangeable facial inserts. He took off his "Tom Cruise" face, and replaced with a "Max Shreck" insert and started speaking in a transylvanian accent.

He also disassembled his right arm.

[Midnight Son]

I worry that John Travolta will take my face and tag my hot wifey.... that bastard!

[Wholly Schmidt]

I worry about the inconvenience of all the slow motion and doves everytime I run into my face-transplantee on the street.

[shift6]

It would be cool to have a group of like 50 people all get Hugo Weaving faces and walk around together all wearing simple black suits.

"Mr. Anderson!"

[Bullhajj]

I remember when that guy got a hand transplant

I thought this said head when I first read it. I was like, "Yeah, that's pretty creepy."

[russellmz00]

What about the trauma of looking in the mirror and seeing a totally different face than the one you're used to?

on cnn they interviewed this woman who had been in a car accident and had her face on fire for ~45 seconds. dozens of surgeries later and she looked...bad.

not sure if she was to be the first one to get it or a candidate or just someone who would like one.

[nutsak]

Do you think a guy that robbed a bank and got this done could use "I was off my face" as an excuse?