I just read a disturbing story about the cloning of a dog that passed away. Would you clone a dying loved one?

Question

I believe life is meant to be celebrated, and grieved. How would you grieve or even appreciate who you lose or what you lose if you can simply replace it with a sort of duplicate? Since cloning fades, they wouldn't be exactly the same anyway....

Answer 1

No! I would never do that. I wouldn't even be able to think of my dog as the same. She and the clone will look just alike, I'm sure, but it is not like their soul is cloned too.

Answer 2

h**l no, that's completely idiotic. You can clone a body but not it's energy/soul. That's like saying, "Replace all the apples in the salad with wax fruit."

Pain is a condition of life. People die. Deal with it.

Answer 3

Cloning only duplicates the body, but not the mind which is the sum of not just genetic but also environmental factors. So the clone would be basically  another person who just happens to LOOK like my loved one. Rather spooky and not something I'd want to experience.

Then again, some people are so superficial that it probably wouldn't bother them.

Answer 4

NO

Answer 5

i know its freaky its like you bury your dog or pet and say goodbye and thats the end of 1 character but then ders 5 more copies..was it and if it was me i couldn't treat them dogs same as the one that just passed away because you automatically think that thats new pups u know like their own personality etc.  its a bit weird for us people to understand the whole cloning thing and a copy thinking and behaving exactly the same way because that doent usually happen with animals only some plants (at least thats what i know)