| Valerie Spiridonov |
In this week’s news,
my story comes from the BBC. It tells an extroadinary story of the first
upcoming head transplant being performed by Professor Sergio Canavero. This
operation is one of a kind and involves decapitating an individual’s head and
then placing it onto another human’s body. However gruesome it sounds, Prof Canevero is confident
the technology is now in place to make it a reality.
Valery
Spiridonov is 31 and suffers from Werdnig-Hoffman's - a muscle-wasting disease,
which has left him in a wheelchair. "Today my life is pretty tough, I need
to rely on people to help me every day - even twice a day because I need
someone to take me off my bed and put me in my wheelchair. The
reason this story is so amazing is because the risks outweigh the advantages by a
long shot. There is a high chance that the operation will not even work, and
even if it does, there are possibilities that the patient will become
permanently paralysed, leaving him worse off than he is now.
The way this story is written by the BBC sheds an operation that, to some, is ludicrous in a positive light. It connotes that no task is too small and even though most of the writers and editors will be thinking that perhaps this operation is a bad idea, they have written in as though the opportunity is a great one for the medical world
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