The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio, has performed the first face transplant in our nation's history. A face transplant requires a donor who has been declared brain dead. One leading bioethicist has raised the question on whether the women's doctor should have given her the option of physician assisted suicide, if the surgery winds up making her life worse.
This transplant was the 4th worldwide, but the first in the United States. I think face transplants will become routine as physicians perfect the technique. I wonder what it feels like to look at someone else's face in the mirror and know it's yours now? Do you think this will cause emotional problems? Do you think physician assisted suicide should be a medical option in this transplant? Unlike operations involving hearts, livers, and kidneys etc., facial transplants are done to improve a quality of life, not extend it. We've become a nation that accepts brain death, for organ transplantation as a gift of life. Are we willing to accept brain death for a face transplant and whatever other transplant may come to improve a quality of life?
This transplant was the 4th worldwide, but the first in the United States. I think face transplants will become routine as physicians perfect the technique. I wonder what it feels like to look at someone else's face in the mirror and know it's yours now? Do you think this will cause emotional problems? Do you think physician assisted suicide should be a medical option in this transplant? Unlike operations involving hearts, livers, and kidneys etc., facial transplants are done to improve a quality of life, not extend it. We've become a nation that accepts brain death, for organ transplantation as a gift of life. Are we willing to accept brain death for a face transplant and whatever other transplant may come to improve a quality of life?
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