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You're on a roll, aren't ya?? Funny, once again. I would say Tony Blair could benefit (if his wife got one). *grin* Fun read!!
posted by
Joe_Love
on January 30, 2006 at 7:45 PM
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Cherie Blair definitely could be improved by a face transplant...
I think I remember hearing that when Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer, is freed from prison he will be offered cosmetic surgery to protect him, as it was such a high profile case.
posted by
blagging
on January 29, 2006 at 8:26 AM
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Interesting that you bring this all up. I just got finished watching CNN's Larry King Live where a doctor was discussing plastic surgery with three guests and a plastic surgeon. Two of the people who had it done said that they would never go through it again, and the third -- well, let's just say that he's known as "The Human Ken Doll." Damn freaky, IMHO. I can see a face transplant being done in certain cases where the damage is so striking that it would be true benefit. But just to look like your favorite celebrity? Get a personality instead, it costs less. If lightening should strike, and you do win, here's a suggestion to be forever remembered -- set up scholarships in the arts and engineering, you will be doing something worthwhile.
posted by
telynor
on January 28, 2006 at 8:31 PM
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wislon - It's a huge topic, with both deep and superficial levels...
Surgeons have now made it a reality, amid much controversey. I have no doubt that 100 years from now, the ability to change one's face (whether through advanced plastics work or via full face transplants) will be doable. - From a young age I pondered the inequty of how much a face dictates ones life. Normal, disfigured, beautiful, zits (or spots as you would call them), etc. Our faces are our window to the world. How would someone's life have been different if their face was different? To me it breaks into two categories: (1) vanity or (2) congenital or tramatic deformities. I fell into the second category when I was 33. I was in a horrific auto accident which crushed my face. I qualified for "severe craniofacial tramatic deformities". I should have died but didn't. They pulled bone from my brain andI didn't have any long-term brain damage, and the rebuilding process began. 5 years later and roughly 30 procedures later, I was turned loose. Unless you've ever been very attractive then come-to in a hospital with a very serious case of ugly, its difficult to understand what a "face" means. I do. The world as I knew it changed. Prior to the wreck I could walk into a bar and call the shots. After the wreck I could walk into a bar and empty it. The surgeon who receives credit as the "father of plastic surgery" said that general surgery was intended to restore funtion, but plastic surgery healed the soul of the injured.
posted by
blogflogger
on January 28, 2006 at 7:59 PM
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MICHAEL JACKSON NEEDS A FACE TRANSPLANT AND HE'LL PROBABLY GET ONE TOO.
posted by
falconeye
on January 28, 2006 at 7:40 PM
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As with everything strange and weird...
it will start in Hollywood! They seem to try anything there.
posted by
sassmeback
on January 28, 2006 at 12:50 PM
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It is a symptom of maladjustment to want a new mug.........................
I'm average to ugly in the looks department and so spent many younger years wishing things were different.
Today I see beauty in the plainest of people and ugliness in the goodlooking.
I've sexual attraction for me to depend not so much on appearance but depth of personality and especially intelligence.
Still it's nice to behold a pretty face and body, only the lusting has subsided.
posted by
Bud-Oracle
on January 28, 2006 at 11:55 AM
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