Can cloning help Silvia?
by
Silvia
Silvia suffers cosmetic deformity of her
face. She has tried to get help from her home in Italy but has not found
anyone with advanced enough technology to help her. She shares her pain
in the story below and if anyone knows of anything or anyone that might
help her please contact her by e-mail. This page was created 5/5/98.
Send
e-mail to Silvia
Dear Human cloning foundation,
I am miss Silvia ..... from Italy. In
21 YEARS of immense suffering I have contacted many good international
surgeons that do craniofacial and maxillofacial surgery (also if I am not
a rich woman), but there is not hope to solve my case as I want (it would
be necessary to alterate the skull, the cranium and it's very riskfull
and to change the shape of the mandibles. I have ask You to ask to dr.
Seed if he is disposed to study my case (I want to clone the face of the
person that represents my ideal and than, if it is possible to transplant
on me or also total head, also I want to mantain my brain, my way to think,
my capabilities, my interior). I know that perhaps it's impossible and
the decision to die I have not taken yestarday, but after many years of
suffering and the impossibility to solve my problem. I didn't want to change
my face to have attention of other persons: it would be stupid and superficial.
It's the relation with myself, to be good with myself: it's ESSENTIAL for
me to live my life.
I hope that after my death science will
continue to research in this field, so to can help other persons that are
in my situation. You write me that You want to publish all situation :
please DON'T publish MY NAME AND SURNAME but only (general) my case without
referiment to my person. I have always supported my affliction with dignity
and I am a reservate person with a tragic life and I want You respect MY
DESIRE.I am sorry to continue to disturb You with my case, but I ensure
You that my aflliction is enormous also if in this time the decision to
die and the help of this person that stay with me when I will die has give
me a moment of serenity. I ensure You that I have fought with all my forces:
I
have contacted all, I have made all that it's possible. Now I am very tired
and only when I fall in sleep I forget to exist.
I thank You very much for attention.
My kindest regards,
Silvia
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e-mail to Silvia
Silvia adds in a more recent communication
that:
"It's necessary to change the base of bony
structure (to reduce the mandibles and bring them back, to reduce the cranium,
the distance between ears and temples, so to change the shape of my face.)"
We hope that human cloning will lead to the cloning
of bones, facial tissue, and anything else that is needed to improve cosmetic
surgery so that more people can be helped.
