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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. What a fucked up concept.
You owe it to your child to grieve for them. You can't substitute another child that's almost exactly like the first(!). That's taking the easy way out. Mourn your child. Remember who they were. Keep a space in your heart for that child always. Trying to fill that spot with a ready-made replacement strikes me as selfish and stupid.
And the fact is, that child is gone. You're not doing the dead child any favors by cloning them. It's not like you're bringing them back. You're not even giving them a chance at life. You're bringing a whole new child into the world, identical DNA or not. The new child with have different experiences, thoughts and connections to people. So, you might as well just have another child.
Thinking about your children as fungible loving units, that should be replaced with a new one if lost, seems sick to me. Interesting topic, but sick.
TM
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Interesting. I don't know if parents who think about cloning view the child as a fungible unit. I think it's more a desparate ray of hope in a heartbreaking time. For me, I did a quick search on Google, saw that the whole thing was being run by these religious crazies called Raelians (scientists and doctors!) who think the world was made by aliens or something.
http://www.clonaid.com/ Between that, and realizing some weird snags (like with the first child being adopted) I was able to say "that's fucked up" in a few minutes. But, I've got a live child and I can see grieving parents going for it if we are able to clone humans. Doctors are saying parents of children who die young are asking about cloning in the droves! Maybe it's that we are increasingly refusing to accept fate. Either way, I would bet that the future brings what these Clonaid groups call "later born twins."
