I;m not sure if asnyone watched this, but recently on an episode of bodyshock there was a girl with a condition where you have another head attached to yours and that head has a small shiveled body with no limbs or organs. Technically there are siamese twins but it'a so rare it has its own name.

Anyway while i was watching it a thought occured, while she was totally normal, that other head growing from the top of her head only had a blood supply yet it was consious. It had a ribcage in its mass of flesh below its neck but within it were no organs, so no lungs. The reason we have lungs is to get oxygen for our blood, if we could have oxygenated blood given to us, we wouldnt need them, like she didnt because a section of her brain was attached to her complete sister, and she was taking her blood.

After finding out about such operations as the head swapping of those two monkeys in the 70's i think, and thw Russian scientist who claimed to have kept a dogs head alive with a simple blood pumping machine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_i...al_of_Organisms

Even though they assumed his claims were false, i dont understand why he couldn;t have been telling the truth. As we saw from bodyshock, that other head had its own consiousness, it was a seperate being, but it was attached to another body, which was supplying it with blood, which allowed it to survive.

So if someone is dieing from say a heartattack, i don't understand why the head cannot be carefully severed from the body, each severed blood vessel and artery being attached to a blood pumping machine. Sure it would be a very comlex operation, but in the case of attaching that monkeys head to another headless body showed, nerve and blood vessel connection one by one works.

So i was thinking, if in a few years time this operation does begin to occur, will anyone want to do it? We have all seen heads in jars in futurama( an example ), but would you want to be one. You would be fully consious, you would have all your senses, but you would be confined to the jar. You would have to placed in some kind of nutritional based liquid to provice you with moisture and minerals you would get from eating, which you can no longer do. Interestly enough your mouth would be full of water, but you wouldnt be drowning as you no longer breathed. You wouldn't be able to talk or make any sound. You would be able to move your eyes around but that would be about it. Of course your brain could be linked with a computer so you could talk( which i believe already has had success), and i suppose you could actually be giving a robotic body and limbs, the robotic spinal cord would attach to your brain is it does now.

Obviously the false body is beyond us at the moment, though i doubt that will be for long.

In conclusion, can this actually be done?( i dont see why not, since oxygenated blood is all we need) and if so, would you ever go through with it to continue living after your body fails you?

Lol this may be the random rmablings of a 16 yr old, but hey, i think its really interesting