Someone has to go first. So why not me?<br /><br /> That is the attitude of Valery Spiridonov who is hoping to have his head transplanted onto a different body in pioneering surgery.<br /><br /> In a wheelchair and suffering from a genetic muscle wasting disease, the 30-year-old Russian wants to take the risk for himself and for science.<br /><br /> “I am honest about my chances,” he said.<br /><br /> “ I know that such an operation could give me the possibility to continue my life further. And if the worst comes to the worst, if that doesn’t happen, I will be the source of a lot of post-surgical data that will help doctors in the future carry out this procedure successfully.”<br /><br /> Despite ever increasing surgical breakthroughs, most medical experts denounce a human head transplant as sheer fantasy.<br /><br /> But Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, is intent on making this operation happen.<br /><br /> And, whatever the outcome, willing volunteer Valery is lined up to make medical history.<br /><br /> “I would like to put it on a scientific track because fo
