87 year old Miller Quarles, a millionaire of Texas, wants to live to be 200.  He would like to be cloned, and has given Mike West, a scientist, a large sum of money to make this possible.  "I think it's a disgrace to America that they want to stop this kind of research," Quarles says.  "I think they should give Mike West a medal of honour and a billion dollars to do whatever he wants.  Mike's very close to curing old age."  In 1997 Geron Corp. found that if one maneuvers the gene, one can keep the telomeres from shrinking, which allows the cells to live longer.  Quarles goes on to say, "I'm not investing in him to get rich...I want to live another 100 years...I'm happy and healthy.  I'm looking for another wife."
        The Globe and Mail, Sat. Dec. 1, 2001. Cloning Research Pays off, Texan says

  In a 2001 Time/CNN poll, 90% of participants thought cloning was a bad idea.

  Doug Dorner from New Jersey had a fight against lymphoma (a cancer affecting the lymph glands-there are some in your neck, on your sides...) which left him sterile.  When he and his wife began to think about children, Doug researched cloning and got excited.  "Technology saved my life.  I think technology should help me have a kid.  That's a fair trade."

  Jack Baker, 37, of Minneapolis, is unmarried, but thinks a clone of himself would be a great kid.  "A clone would be a perfect child to have, because I know what I'm getting."  He hopes that he may be able to improve his clone.  "I have bad allergies and asthma," he continues.  "It would be nice to have a kid like me, but with improvements."

  "The short answer to the cloning question," concludes Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "is that anybody who clones somebody today should be arrested.  It would be barbaric human experimentation-killing fetuses and embryos for no purpose except curiosity.  But if you can't agree that that's wrong to do, and if the media can't agree to condemn rather than gawk, that's a condemnation of us all."

   Latter four quotes from Reader's Digest, December 2001.  "The Cloning Wars."

  "Cloning can be a great help to medicine - the healing of incurable diseases and the repairing of damaged or sick organs.  This cloning process has caused many embryos to be killed and because of the interest of scientists, other inhuman experiments may take place."  Thunked up by Laura Barfoot 

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