Psychological rejection of transplant parts.

[Rebiu]

I read an article that mentions transplant recipients in China choosing to have transplanted hands and other body parts removed because they could not accept having a dead persons parts.

 

Could you live with someone else’s hand? How about the face transplant?

[Purity]

Just today, I was reading a story about a man in China who had a penis transplant. His was mangled in an accident about a year ago. Everything was going lovely. But, he asked to have it removed because his WIFE couldn't cope with it. (???????)

 

For myself, yes, if I had a limb missing, and had the opportunity to 'regain' the use of another one.....I'd do it!

 

Same with the face transplant. No doubt it would be very shocking for the first while, but, I'd rather see flesh than bones and teeth looking back at me in the mirror.

[ecoli]

I think it would be wierd to have a limb from somebody else's body. *shudders*

[Gypsy Cake]

I've thought about this before. I find it hard to understand how people can have tattoos so I don't know I'd cope. I definitely think you'd feel different if you needed it but it actually makes me feel slightly ill imagining someone else's organ inside me. And the psychological effects of a face-transplant would be incomprehensible.