What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.

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      Yeah, other than the horrific ghoulishness of it all, organ failure after transplant and rejection is still relatively high, and you have to be on medicine to prevent that rejection your entire life. You’re going down Putin old boy.

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        It wouldn’t surprise me if they have an island of clones to get over that problem.

        You can’t get past the old brain problem though so Donny’s shit out of luck.

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          Good luck. Also your brain and vascular system will be huge bottle necks that can’t be replaced. Most people don’t realize it, but as people age, their veins and arteries begin to weaken\deteriorate to different extents depending on their overall health.

          If you had an 80 year with CAD, and literally swapped out every organ you could, they would probably have an aneurysm and die within a few months. It would be like taking an old garden hose with dry rot and then pumping 5000gallons per minute through it when it’s only rated for 50 gpm to begin with

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            So, at this point it’s just better to transplant your brain in to a whole new body

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      I hope to never have to experience one organ transplant. They are morons if they think this is an elective option you’d want to do multiple times. Every single time is a threat to your life.

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        And life-long immunosuppressants with the constant mortal fear of a cough or runny nose. Sepsis is no joke and can easily develop in a matter of hours if you don’t have a healthy immune system.

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          I hope we gain more control over our immune systems in the coming years. They protect us, but they can also kill us. I have people in my family with life threatening allergies, and gosh it would be amazing if we could just get our bodies to accept a transplanted organ that is literally keeping them alive.

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      Are they hoping for Jupiter, or Repo the Genetic Opera? Because this isn’t even close to Gattaca.

      Either way, this has been a Science Fiction Movie.