by Sandy Sand
For more than forty years physicians have been replacing worn out knee and hip joints.
Internal organs are replaced even though they are riddled with rejection problems.
External flaws, the ravages of aging and excess fat have people lining up at the body sculptors’ workshops.
According to CNN
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/01/03/connery.uk.bionic.knuckles.cnn
Scientists have perfected bionic knuckles made of space age materials that prevent rejection by the body to give new life to old hands that are ravaged by arthritis.
All this body part replacement needs some reconsideration.
I rather like to compare our bodies to automobiles.
Put a new engine in an old car and it puts stress on the older un-replaced parts and they conk out.
Give a person a new efficient pump and it will put stress on weak old kidneys that can’t keep up.
Therefore, once our bones have finished growing and we’re fully matured adults (yeah, like that ever happens to our brains, anyway).
Brain transplants, anyone? But then you wouldn’t be you; you’d be him or her.
We should have all our body parts replaced at the same time before they all conk out like old auto parts.
Why put up with the crummy ones nature doled out to us?
Monday, January 5, 2009
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An interesting article, to be sure. I would like to see the day when science and medicine are advanced enough to allow for wholesale replacement of broken, worn out, and sludged up body parts, but until that time comes, the piecemeal approach is just fine. Real quality-of-life issues can be successfully addressed this way. If a man suffered from arthritis, the bionic knuckles, depending on his marital/dating status, could vastly improve his sex life. Further, something that would improve the lives of everyone would be the development of boobs with a conscience. If this were achieved, we would all benefit from better government. For this alone, I believe that funding for this type of research should be doubled.
What a guy! Always thinking in double digits!
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