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Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by echelon on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:30AM (#29575606)
If we get human head transplants working, we can use regenerative cloning to create new bodies. It'll be the cure to aging, cancer, everything.

If not clones of the patient, we could use monoclonal bodies with O- blood and HLA neutrality to negate the need for immunosuppressants.

New thymuses and pulmonary systems regenerate immune and endothelial health of the brain.

We're close, we just need a conceptual jump. It sounds icky, but not in practicality.

Tangentially, we could use artificial chimeric pig uteruses to artificially give birth. It'd relieve the burden of bearing children.

Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by mellavora on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:02AM (#29576111)
Love the underlying assumption that somehow the head is "you" and the body is the replaceable part.

Can't say I accept that assumption as true, but it is nice to see it laid out so explicitly.

Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by charcircuit on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:28AM (#29575941)
Just have a robot body and then simply live in VR.
Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122... by nradov on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:15AM (#29578952)
Brains also decay and malfunction with age.