Doctor tried to surgically save the human soul  after death

The monkey s eyelids fluttered after 18 hours under anesthesia. Two medical teams stood by anxiously. Doctors, nurses and a troop of assistants held their breath, waiting for a sign that the delicate operation actually, two delicate operations had been a success. 

Holding a pair of forceps, Cleveland brain surgeon Robert White gently tapped the animal s nose. With a flash of apparent recognition, the monkey, a midsized primate known as a macaque, snapped his jaws as if trying to bite the doctor. 

The surgical theater erupted in cheers. 

White had done it: the world s first primate head transplant. He had attached the conscious, living head of one macaque to the breathing, vital body of another, creating a single new animal. 

Dangerous, pugnacious and very unhappy, White summed up his patient s demeanor in 1970. With good reason. The formerly healthy creature was now paralyzed from the neck down and had only hours to live. 

via nypost.com

Ugh.