THE LONDON TIMES
MARCh, 9th '97
Cloning can bring back my
dead son
AS THE father of an elder son killed in a road accident,
I
think a powerful argument can be made out for the
resurrection by cloning of deceased children and young
adults who are cut down in their prime before they have
had the chance to propagate their own line. They are
surely entitled to a second chance to achieve their
three
score years and ten.
Such cloning would not result in overcrowding since one
would merely be restoring an individual who should have
still been alive. The acid test is whether the deceased
can
be put back reasonably within his or her own time frame.
There would be no point in cloning a man of 54, such as
myself, because if I died and reappeared as a baby I
could not resume a normal relationship with my wife and
surviving son.
However, if my son were cloned he would be able to
resume his relationship with my wife and myself and our
younger son in a meaningful way and our family would be
complete again.
Harry Harris
Brooklands,
Manchester
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