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Originally posted by Ex_post_Festo
Anybody do it? If so, any advice or recs.?
I've found one independent website, and others for the private banks themselves. Our Doc is screamingly neutral about it. My read is that the practice is a little ahead of the technology; that they don't yet know alot of what to do with it once they have it banked. The science of it sounds oddly like freezing yourself before death so they can thaw you out if they find a cure for what's killing you; the payoff is very speculative. The sales pitch is an instant put-off as well ('insurance policy', 'isn't your child's life worth it?').
Two grand better spent in a college account? Or on a faster plane?
Thanks.
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Too late for me, as I assume Viet Mom's Biomom chucked her cord already. But I have to admit to thinking of these types of things, to the point of a quick google search (probably after a harrowing day of some toddler-near death-experience) whether human cloning is or isn't available. I admit that if it were possible and pretty guaranteed, I'd strongly think about cloning Viet Babe with her DNA if she (oh how awful to think) died at a young age, even though I know it sounds awful. If I carried her to term myself, I'd have a lot of explaining to do as I guess she wouldn't be adopted anymore. But....I quickly found that the cloning area is rife with religious whackos and dubious claims of some who say they've already cloned people. And also some press reports of a couple (a Senator and his wife I think) who got taken in by the cloning people after they lost their toddler son.
So....if it was safe and possible and you (God Forbid) lost your child at a young age, and all you had to do was provide some hair and other DNA stuff and it could be substituted into an ovum and implanted, would you do it? Would you produce the same child you lost? Heavy thoughts for the weekend!
(And yes I saw that movie with Deniro).
