Soul on Ice

[woodchip]

Title is taken from Black Panther member Eldridge Cleaver but appropriate here:

\"Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a mouse from a dead cell frozen for 16 years, taking a step in the long impossible dream of bringing back extinct animals such as mammoths.

Scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken used the dead cell of a mouse that had been preserved at minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a temperature similar to frozen ground.

The scientists hope that the first-of-a-kind research will pave the way to restore extinct animals such as the mammoth.\"

All this is exciting and I would dearly love to see a Mammoth resurrected, but the ethical part is going to be cloning a child to replace the son or daughter who died. Could one refuse the grief stricken parents that right? I myself couldn't.
Will the day come that we all keep cells on ice so loved ones can kinda replace us? Will we want clones made of the truely gifted to continue their abilities for the benefit of mankind? Your thoughts.

[Will Robinson]

A clone is just a physical replica not a second coming of the person who died so for me it's kind of creepy to think of parents having a replica of a dead child constructed.

[CDN_Merlin]

We are venturing into a world of very scary stuff. Imagine if the wrong hands get this?

[Grendel]

but the ethical part is going to be cloning a child to replace the son or daughter who died. Could one refuse the grief stricken parents that right? I myself couldn't.

Puts a new spin on abortion -- keep some cells and start over when things are better.

Will the day come that we all keep cells on ice so loved ones can kinda replace us? Will we want clones made of the truely gifted to continue their abilities for the benefit of mankind? Your thoughts.

Kloning only roughly reproduces the body. The person will be a different one.

We are venturing into a world of very scary stuff. Imagine if the wrong hands get this?

Scary how ? What would the "wrong hands" do ?

[CDN_Merlin]

Ever think the wrong hands can clone millions of people for war? Clone animals that shouldn't be? Etc.