making a sapient clone just to harvest their organs
A clone just makes a genetically identical baby, though, and they are shorter-lived. Dolly only lived half as long as the sheep she was a clone of, before she died of old age.
Unless you wanted to wait 15 - 20 years, for organs that might, on average, last 15, cloning isn’t practical.
I’m assuming we can solve the telemere issue for this. Frankly though it seems to be a stalled out field, at least until we can figure out how to better use stem cells.
But yeah if you are in your 20s or even 50s making a clone baby of yourself and waiting 20 years would be technically viable to get a new set of organs. Which is more what I’m referring to, especially since creating a healthy body you can rip apart would basically require letting it live a relatively healthy life.
A clone just makes a genetically identical baby, though, and they are shorter-lived. Dolly only lived half as long as the sheep she was a clone of, before she died of old age.
Unless you wanted to wait 15 - 20 years, for organs that might, on average, last 15, cloning isn’t practical.
I assume if we’re able to clone an entire person we’d also be able to clone the individual organs needed.
I’m assuming we can solve the telemere issue for this. Frankly though it seems to be a stalled out field, at least until we can figure out how to better use stem cells.
But yeah if you are in your 20s or even 50s making a clone baby of yourself and waiting 20 years would be technically viable to get a new set of organs. Which is more what I’m referring to, especially since creating a healthy body you can rip apart would basically require letting it live a relatively healthy life.