Shades of Frankenstein emerged on the international medical scene this week after the announcement that a 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, is volunteering to become the first human to undergo a …head transplant – that means cutting off the head and attaching it to another body!

According to ScienceAlert.com controversial Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero outlined the transplant technique in the journal Surgical Neurology International.

According to the Independent’s Christopher Hootan, such an operation will take at least 36-hours and require the work of 150 physicians and nurses.

“A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can’t really blame him, but while he is prepared for the possibility that the body will reject his head and he will die, his fate could be considerably worse than death,” Hootan wrote.

The planned transplant, as one can easily surmise, isn’t without controversy.

“I would not wish this on anyone,” said Dr. Hunt Batjer, the president-elect of the prestigious American Association for Neurological Surgeons.

“I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death.”