Crikey, did anyone else see this on the news?  A French woman was attacked by a dog leaving her extremely disfigured so they have just transplanted the chin, lip and nose area of her face with a donor face- has a few ethical issues involved I think!  On a lighter note, it makes me wonder what requirements they put in place for possible donors?  You would want something appropriate!

-Kay

Can't understand the fuss, it's only skin.  The bone and muscle structure of the recipient is going to dictate entirely what the the person will look like not the donor although I suppose any distinguishing scars will show up :)  I can't see it as any different to organ donation.

I am a registered organ donor myself as are all my children.It may seem a bit wiered to say that i do not take blood and also have DNR on ALL my medical records.Not for any religious reasons may i add.I have always had a major fear of dieing,and being resusitated too late so i end up spending my days strapped in a wheel chair being spoon fed and having some one clean me everytime i wet my pants.I wouldnt want to be like that so i chose what i did.When i am dead,if anything is any good then anyone is welcome to whatever they want.Id like to think that my death,or my childrens,wouldnt be in vain.Theres such a shortage of organ donors anyway.
Is anyone else registered as a donor i wonder?

i'm registered as a donor-they can every bit of me-and theres a whole lot of me :D !

nicola

Yes I am and agree totally with you ! I also get very upset when I think about dying, I have always done ever since I was a little girl :(

I think that if I can help somebody after my death then by all means take anything that is still functional ! (some parts maybe well past their sell by date :D ) My OH is fully aware as well :D I would also donate my little ones organs if anything happened to them :)

Lucy
xx

I too carry a donor card, its just it must be a strange idea to hear if suggested to you- I keep imagining that John Travolta/Nicholas Cage film 'Face Off'!   The woman will be on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of her life, hopefully it will be successful for her, otherwise I dread to think of her prognosis..

i once watched a program about it.
They took a someones face and out it on another persons face. And then gave a load of people a who;le group of pictures and the picture of the original donor, they couldnt work out which one did the donor face. I will add all this was done on bodies that were donated to medical science.
Its good in theory but can you imagine being the first one to have a full face transplant(Which I believe is completely viable even now!!!)
Lea :)

When you think of the horrific injuries that poor person went through that entitled them to a full face transplant it doesnt bear to be thought about.It must be the most traumatising thing for a person to live through.My youngest daughter is badly scarred after suffering a nasty strain of meningitis 3 years ago,but she was lucky enough to keep her face unmarked.The worse part was her legs and bottom so its not too hard to cover up.I would of hated her face to be scarred as she is just soooooooo pretty.She has one small mark on the bridge of her nose where the oxygen mask rubbed but apart from that,nothing.I owe so much to the great doctors and nurses in the ITU where my daughter spent three months and also the nurses on the ward where she spent a further two months untill she was allowed home.Without them she wouldnt be here today. :)

Me too, they can take whatever's needed when I'm gone - I won't need it.  Having said that, I knew a girl at college once who said they could have anything except her eyes and heart, because she needed them to see and love in the next world.  Lovely idea, just don't buy into it myself!

I would like to donate organs after my death as well, except for one point.

When my friends dad died 3 years ago, her and the rest of the family were told to leave the room within a minute or two of his death so that they could get on with removing the organs immediately. She said this was one of the hardest things about his death, that they could not spend time with him just after he died. You might say that there is no need as the person is gone, but she said it was awful.

this topic reminds my of the film face off with to good actor john travitor and nick cage,it one of my best film,but the story line very different from the this lady.

back then when the film came out i said to my husband it will not long be long before they do this as a transplant for real.

It's very worrying though, it said that there is a high incidence of cancer risk on doing this.  Scary stuff.  I've not got a donor card although I keep saying I will.  For some reason I've told my parents if anything happened to me that they could have anything but my eyes! 

I suppose we were lucky as when my Dad died the only thing they were able to use were his retinas and so we were able to say good bye after he had gone :) If anything else could have been used then we would have had no problem at all donating them :)