by Sarah Wood

Created on: August 04, 2010   Last Updated: August 07, 2010

From a personal viewpoint: Absolutely, positively not acceptable. It is not only morally wrong, but ethically wrong as well. In fact, on my view point, the whole cloning process boggles my mind. Why would anyone make a clone of themselves? With that said, I have to base this off of personal experience with being a mother. My daughter is smart, beautiful and a very happy child. No matter what happens she is extremely happy and considerate of others. She runs up to people walking down the street and says hi. I could never imagine losing her, but if I ever did I would not know how to handle this huge loss to me.

There is nothing like having those memories with your children. With feeling love for your child and being in their life, it is absolutely the perfect feeling in the world. However, making a clone of your child in case of death and accidents? I could never imagine the feeling of the regular child when if ever, finding this information out that your parents just couldn't handle having one of you, but wanting to create another child that looks just like you is mindboggling. How do you know that that cloned child is going to be similar in anyway other than looking just like that particular child that is not a clone? Dealing with loss is hard, but cloning someone for that sake is simply wrong in every ethical view point.

But that is the problem our society faces. People do not want to deal with loss and losing someone can be taken clearly out of proportion. Making books, cds and other media entertainment after these few individuals die is something that I believe is highly wrong. Why not save those memories for your own records? So you can personally look back at how much you loved your child that you may have lost. There are so many more options out their other than cloning a similar child.

Loss should be discussed more and ways on how to handle it should be discussed not in a way you do not understand, but in a way that people will understand on a mundane level. Parents need to understand that loss might just happen and preparing yourself mentally before it does happen is a good way on how to deal with it when or if it does ever happen. The reason why cloning has never hit big is not only because it is highly expensive, but what is the point? Wouldn't it hurt more on a mentality level of the parent raising another child that looks just like the previous child? And on another note, wouldn't it be selfish by erasing your memories of the previous

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