You’re diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a cancer tumor in your abdomen, and given only six months to live. Because of the size and location of the tumor you are told it is inoperable. You did the whole chemo and drug coctail thing and it didn’t work. Now you are faced with the slow and rather painful conclusion of your life.

 Or you can go against everyone’s recomendation and have a surgery that would literally spill your guts. Woman’s Abdominal Organs Removed in Unique Cancer Surgery

Her organs were put back in after the tumor had been excised.  And she is apparently doing rather well post-op. When you think about it, it does not seem that far fetched. Sure she had 6 organs removed, but only temporarily. Organ removal and transplant has been fairly routine for the past several years. This is just an extension of that, except with one person and their own organs.

Personally I have hard time putting something back together after taking it apart. I always manage to lose some vital part, or some part that doesn’t seem vital until everything falls apart the next day. Hopefully the surgeons pay better attention to where everything goes as they start removing pieces. It may be a little uncomfortable if your stomach becomes your spleen and your spleen becomes your liver the liver gets lost behind a cabinet. Not to mention messy.

Not to downplay the incredibleness of the operation, but it seems like pretty soon humans are going to become snapable. Like little models of dolls with interchangable parts made for easy replacement. And if stem cell research and cloning continues we could even replace ourselves with ourselves. I am not opposed to the idea, but if you start thinking about possibilities, both good and bad, you can seriously scare yourself (even more then looking at yourself in the morning before the shower). Makes the Island of Dr. Moreau even more of a possibility. Of course I think without that kind of advancement, humans have pretty much stalled evolution wise. Think about it. Back in the day people with poor vision would be seen as unfit mates, because of poorer hunting skills, not to mention just falling off a cliff. Compound that with increasing the life span through drugs, surgeries and other treatments, we have people living and breeding that otherwise wouldn’t.

To quote a favorite bumper sticker of mine:

Stupid people shouldn’t breed

I was not trying to be inflamatory with the above. I know it could be seen as a rant and it very well may have been one. And yes you could just as easily argue that humans are thus evolving in other ways. I am not trying to start an argument about religion either. So let me just end it with, Good luck to that woman, hopefully this technique will become even more common and save many lives, thus further diluting the evolutionary gene pool.