• Question: Can someone live forever by using organ transplants?

    Asked by jakeislington to Rob on 14 Jun 2016.
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      Rob Stanley answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      Unfortunately not (or fortunately, where are all these organs coming from!?).

      The simplest way to see this is what happens if your brain gets ill. Even if we could transplant a brain, it wouldn’t be you afterwards! The full answer is that bodies wear out as well as organs, and there is lots of stuff we could never replace.

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