# Opponents of French "face transplant" make me angry

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opponents-of-french-face-transplant-make-me-angry/333734>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 2, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opponents-of-french-face-transplant-make-me-angry/333734 "2005-12-02T15:45:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opponents-of-french-face-transplant-make-me-angry/333734/41 "2005-12-03T13:34:02Z")

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> [@Scylla](#):
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> So far, nobody has mentioned the Nick Cage/John Travolta objection to facial transplants.

No, not directly, but it has been alluded to.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opponents-of-french-face-transplant-make-me-angry/333734/42 "2005-12-04T06:28:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Some also felt that a suicidally depressed patient was a poor risk for experimental surgery.

Yeah, they should have waited to perform the surgery on a cheerfully upbeat person whose face had been chewed off by dogs.

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