The juvenile, but not unexpected, negative remarks about her appearance.
The people who are squeamish about a face transplant.
She got shot in the fucking face. Given that, I’d say that her appearance is spectacular. I am awestruck that whatever procedure allowed this is even possible. It’s inspiring the positive works that human industry can achieve.
Giving away your organs is a beautiful thing and one of the most humane gestures you can make. It’s the ultimate shirking of ego, acknowledging that you’re becoming worm food and letting someone else benefit from the physical stuff that is you. Giving away your face is perhaps more powerful.
No one is going to call you a monster if you have a jacked up liver or heart. Having a visible facial deformity evokes an immediate and visceral response in other people and no doubt impacts your quality of life tremendously regardless of how physically or mentally capable you may be otherwise.
The fact that we need to go to such lengths to ensure a normal appearance is disheartening but the fact that we do after horrific trauma is comforting.
On an unrelated note, it’s messed up if she would get back with the guy that did this to her, but I guess it’s not my life and I don’t know the details.
2 headshots, 0 kills. 1 ruined life (2 if you count his miserable existence). What a fucking cock. 7 years is BS.
And conorh, regarding your #2: I don’t think it’s “gross” or anything… it’s that it’s your face. Like knowing someone your whole life then different face??? That would be weird. Especially if it was a loved one. I’d like to think it wouldn’t bother me, but it might. I feel terrible for the woman in the story and believe that this should be available (and perfected) for people in these types of situations so no one has to go around subjected to that kind of ridicule.
Next questions:
Does she have to get a new driver’s license?
How long until otherwise ‘normal’ folks are getting these? Like, superficial America wanting boob jobs, ass implants, etc?
The people who are squeamish about a face transplant. [/quote]
If I came off as rude or anything… that was not my intention.
The woman’s story is obviously horrible… I don’t think anybody was trying to say otherwise.
Some comments were immature… but if mine was, I didn’t mean to come off as immature.
The concept of having another human being’s face is just a very odd concept. A heart or kidney doesn’t seem so odd. And like I stated before… I think it’s the individuality aspect. A heart or kidney does not change individual to individual… it is still a heart or a kidney. Everybody has them. And they are mostly the same. A face , however, is VERY individual… not too many people have the same exact face (similar, sure. But rarely seemingly identical)…
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2) How long until otherwise ‘normal’ folks are getting these? Like, superficial America wanting boob jobs, ass implants, etc?[/quote]
The thought of a black market for faces just made my skin crawl…on my face.
This is a real medical miracle. Its amazing face transplants are now occurring. I’m really hoping more and more people will be eligible. I mean that in a way that the screening process really cuts down the field of people who need it to those in dire need, such as this woman.
You probably won’t see “normal” people doing that for a long time, if ever. The amount of reconstructive surgery is insane. I didn’t real the article, but I’d imagine the number of procedures is something most people would not want to go through, especially considering the use of a face transplant is to fix someone’s face how has basically lost most of it, including structural portions, cartilage, bone, etc. I’d imagine she has a lot of day-to-day pain to deal with and no one wants that.
She’s a real trooper to deal with this. I wish her the best.