From Financialpost.com 

Sergio Canavero, the 52-year-old Italian surgeon, relishes being described “crazy as a bat.” He hasn’t watched television since 1993. He doesn’t own a car. He’s felt a deep affinity with Spider Man’s nerdy Peter Parker. He has authored a book on the techniques of female seduction, adheres to a strict Mediterranean diet (“no bovine meat”), meditates and refrains from drink. He practices jujutsu and, in a recent interview, reflected on his “six-pack.”

Sometime next year, if he can find a hospital that will take him, Canavero will oversee the decapitation of the healthy head of one man and its transplantation onto the surgically beheaded body of another. And he doesn’t plan to stop there. In an hour-long Skype conversation with National Post, the eccentric physician outlined his vision to make us immortal.

“It wasn’t that I just woke up one day and said, ‘I want to do a head transplant,” the physician said, while laying out his procedure that could, he argued, represent the key to everlasting life.

Canavero is the creator of HEAVEN, the “head anastomosis venture” project. His surgical protocol reads something like this: Two teams of international surgeons working together will swiftly and simultaneously lop off the heads of two men — one, the “recipient,” the other, the “donor,” an accident victim, for example, whose brain is dead but whose body is otherwise healthy. They will then shift the recipient’s head onto the donor body using a custom-made swivel crane, reconnect and stitch up the trachea, esophagus, the carotid arteries and jugular veins, link up the spinal cords, sew up the skin and wait for the recipient to re-awaken.

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