If the world's first human head transplant became successful, so does its proponent. No wonder, Dr. Canavero is Dr. Frankenstein.
200 years ago, English author Mary Shelly had written her novel of "Frankenstein," a doctor who has the obsession of bringing a dead person into life. The story got so popular and adapted for the big screen for several times even though it's just a non-fiction and a little bit unethical.
According to Healthline, Dr. Canavero's vision of bringing a dead body and a dead head to life through the world's first human head transplant brings medicine to Shelly's novel. Upon planning and doing this, people thinks medicine as unethical and anti-God.
However, if there are lots of contradiction on the idea of Dr. Canavero for the human head transplant, the doctor would not want to change his mind, not this time, that he already had a volunteer. The 52-year-old scientist Dr. Sergio Canavero is an Italian surgeon, described as "crazy as a bat," National Post reported.
Dr. Canavero is known as a nerd for he has never even watched television since the year 1993 but had a deep affinity with Spider Man's persona, Peter Parker. Dr. Canavero had authored several books such as Techniques on Female Seduction. He even meditates and refrains from drinks, practices Jujitsu and strict on his Mediterranean diet.
When asked about his vision, Dr. Canavero pointed out that he wants to make people immortal. "It wasn't that I just woke up one day and said, 'I want to do a head transplant,'" Dr. Canavero said.
Right before Dr. Canavero came up with his idea of the human head transplant, he took more than 30 years of study for its possible success. On his HEAVEN project (Head Anastomosis Venture), as part of the world's first human head transplant that he will perform in December 2017, the doctor clearly states his protocol. "Two teams of international surgeons working together will swiftly and simultaneously lop off the heads of two men- one the "recipient, the other as the "donor."
