Thread:Harostar/@comment-27247962-20160529094911

I'll bring you the promised and hopefully long-awaited answer to this freaking gorgeous question!

As far as my search went, this is my conclusion:

Impossible. For longterm at least.

It's possible to make a human centipede without anyone dying in the process, but it's practically impossible to keep your creation alive for a longer period.

The high chance of infection, caused by either poorly patching them up and not having enough time to let the wounds of the surgery heal properly, would be a problem. Neither does it help that the everyone besides the first one need to swallow feces, which contains a high amount of bacteria and (viruses). That combination of a wound that still has to heal, certainly one around the mouth area + the addition of feces, would immediately cause infection within the day. And not long after that they will die in agony. The lucky guy in the front, isn't so lucky either, since the infection will inevitably spread to him too, only in the reverse way.

Now another reason why this medical surgery wouldn't last long is the mental weight it inflicts on the persons. It could cause a heartattack, a seizure, make the person go insane and trying to tear himself loose, causing severe internal bleeding and high chance on choking in your own blood. You could also get a situation where the persons brain just shuts down, because of the intense pain and trauma this situation causes. A coma isn't out of the question either. (But these are ofcourse assumption and won't happen as regularly as the above or the one beneath. Just know that it's a possibility)

The last reason i found, would be that the sudden change in diet, could cause for a certain side-effect at first. The person will have a high chance of vomiting, because of the smell, taste and overall disgusting mental image. As we can see (if you look at a picture of the creation), there is no way for the vomit to escape, except the nose. But the heavy movements that come with vomiting would rather open the wounds and might even cause internal bleeding and increase the chance on infection even more. Or the person just chokes in his own vomit, because it can't go anywhere and his nasal opening isn't big enough to let it all through.

Which in my honest opinion, would be the most desirable way to die, because prolonging to take part in this surgical monstrosity with the hope to get saved or find a way to save yourself, will make you go through intense pain. I doubt that intense pain would leave you much chance for thinking your situation through, let alone finding a solution to get yourself out of this.

Well that was my essay, I hope this is satisfactory proof that it is medically innacurate to create such a human monstrosity and let it live on in this new body.

For now at least. ;) 