In general, having major surgery is life threatening and if it is not absolutely life threatening most people will advise against it. Having liver transplant is only when necessary and a person will die without that surgery, in order words as a last resort. However, society may be more controversial toward having a face transplant than a liver transplant because some might consider it to be a moral issue. Most transplant boards ethic committee will not all it, because it’s an ethical decision and also its not life threatening.
In my opinion, the choice to have a face transplant should ultimately be your choice and the surgeons doing the surgery regardless of society’s remarks about the issue. It should not be a decision taken lightly and should only be as a last resort. With any surgery, the problem you are trying to fix may get worse or even result in death. Some other factors need to be considered into that decision; it may not be a good decision. Currently, people who have gone through that surgery had to spend more than twenty four hours in the main surgery and over fifty other surgeries with many months recovering in the hospital extensive care, on drug regiments and also the possibility that your immune system will reject the transplants. You may not die, but it’s likely that you may not feel any feelings on your face. My question is: “Is it worth it”?
Psychologically, you may have problem adjusting to your new face. As a matter of facts, a woman in France name Isabelle Dinoire had partial face transplant and she could not adjust to her new face. Even though the surgery was a completed success, her mental state was not. Imagine having to get use to a new face when you look in the mirror. What you also need to consider is the fact that only you is going through that experience. It will be hard for people to sympathize you because they don’t know what you going trough. With all those facts and other factors, that’s why people are infamous toward face transplants.
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