Get Ready For The Next-Gen Transplant... The Heart, Sorry, I Mean: The Head Transplant!

"IRACEBETH, THE RED QUEEN (Helena Bonham Carter), is the tyrannical monarch of Underland. With her oversized head, fiery temper and propensity to scream for people’s heads to be chopped off, she rules her subjects through fear. “She’s got emotional problems,” says Bonham Carter. “It takes nothing, practically, for her to lose her temper. Her tantrums are that of a two-year-old.” Her younger sibling, the White Queen, has designs on the throne and crown that Iracebeth once stole from her." (source)

Heart transplants will soon be a thing of the past: mechanical circulatory support as destination therapy (and no longer as "bridge to transplant"), 3D organ bioprinting, artificial hearts (in China and in Europe with Carmat)... The next thing is the... head transplant!!

Great stuff for a scenarist, so, thank you for that one: the "head transplant"!! By the way, you can read more about what a head transplant is (should be? will be? might be?) here...

They are trying to industrialize organ donation (you know, that big-bucks-big-pharma business model thing)... as a result the system is in crisis... concerns and quandaries about "brain death" and "donation under cardiac death" ("is brain death true death?" etc.), worldwide organ trafficking (forced transplants in China) and human biomarket ("Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis" etc.). I wonder if a brighter prospect (other than a sequel to Burton's "Frankenweenie") awaits us with a head transplant... 

http://qz.com/99413/first-ever-human-head-transplant-is-now-possible-says-neuroscientist

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/01/could-an-italian-scientist-pave-the-way-for-human-head-transplants