Would you clone a loved one?

Question

If you lost someone or a pet and desperately wanted them back - if you knew there would be no risks - would you clone them?

Answer 1

No because they wouldn't have the same memories or knowledge as the loved one.

You love people because of who they are and they are this person as a result of their life experiences. You could never get the same person back, same goes for a pet.

Answer 2

f a loved one died than yes to bring him/her back

Answer 3

No. For several different reasons:

1. Clones take a LONG time to grow:

By the time the clone was able to grow to the age that you knew them at, they would be much younger than you. So, say you were thirty and the loved one you knew was 35. It would take 35 years for that loved one to reach that point, by which time you would be 65.

2. Clones age unnaturally:

Clones' bodies get much older much quicker, and not in a way that would speed them up growth-wise. Dolly the sheep died of old age at six; most sheep live about 11 or 12 years. See, because you are taking DNA from a person already living and injecting it into an egg to form a clone, the DNA is already older and has started to deteriorate with life, and the clones are much more likely to develop things like cancer, respiratory diseases, arthritis and dementia at very young ages. So, say you took that DNA from the 35 year old relative and cloned it. By the time that clone would be 35, their DNA would be 70! Imagine all the problems most people have at 70 in a 35-year-old person.... it's not good! There is no way to get around this fact, nothing in science can really help it because of the nature of the DNA used.

3. Clones will actually be different than the person in question:

Believe it or not, the clone will be a completely different person. It will be growing up at a different time with a different family. Genes say quite a bit, but virtually nothing is hard wired. The clone will develop a new personality all it's own, and most likely be completely different from the person you intended to clone. If you want evidence of this, check out Rainbow and C.C. (cloned cats) at http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/clo... In this case, even though C.C. is Rainbow's clone, she looks very different from Rainbow!

Answer 4

yes of course i would especially my late mother in law,because she was a better mother to me than my own :-)

Answer 5

No, I don't think I would. But I might clone myself before I die! Then I can raise it to do my bidding! I’ll have my clone rob a bank! What? It wasn’t me!! I was with a group of friends! They all saw me with them!! How can I be in two places at once?!?!

Answer 6

A clone is a shell,and wouldn't have the same traits or personality as the original.

Answer 7

With all due respect, why bother?  I can think of three good reasons not to clone a loved one (person OR pet):

1. As several people have mentioned, it wouldn't be the SAME person or pet; just a genetic copy.  The memories and experiences you shared with that loved one would be gone forever and could never be duplicated.

2. Clones don't just come out of a clone machine full grown, like in the movie Multiplicity.  Clones have to be grown from embryos, just like everybody else.  You wouldn't have a ready-made adult copy of a parent or spouse or beloved pet - you'd have a baby to raise.  Again, there is no chance that you could replicate the exact circumstances that shaped your former loved one into the person or pet that you loved.

3. There are just so many thorny ethical issues.  Is it really fair to the potential clone if your only purpose for making them is to fill a hole in your life?  If the clone doesn't love you back, what then?

I hope that helps.  Good luck!

Answer 8

no becoz its not the same it just looks like them

Answer 9

it would depend..... if it had his personality of course yes but if it only had looks noo :(

Answer 10

No because they would not have the same personality as the original. It might have the same body but you can't clone a soul.

Answer 11

No, Cloning is against law of nature. It is not everlasting. You will never love a thing that dearly if you dont have the feeling of losing it. Also cloning had already proved wrong as the first clone sheep Dolly died in a miserable way in just few weeks of its creation, as the cells taken from the org. sheep was aged too much and it can not survive beyond its specified age in DNA.  

Answer 12

No for these  reasons.

1a while they may be genetically identical they would not have the memories or personality of that person and therefore would not be the person that I loved.  

2  I think it would be mentally unhealthy to have someone  round who looks like a person who has died and who you think of as that person but actually has there own separate personality.

3 death is part of life and I think it’s important to be able to deal with it, have a proper period of grieving and then move on.  

4 if you are talking about a pet, while you may have loved your pet,  why not give a home  and you love to a pet that really needs it. there are plenty of animal shelters that have pets that need re housing and I would prefer to go to one of these.  

Answer 13

Not a person...maybe a pet...if I liked it well enough and I had enough money.

But is there any guarantee that the clone will have the same personality as the original?

Hey, that's a good question. :-)