“Epitaph One” reveals that the Rossum Corporation eventually comes to abuse the dollhouse technology by selling immortality. They can discard their aging or damaged bodies for a new and healthy or younger body that they have taken from another soul. This was the point where they crossed the line of ethics and it eventually led to a global disaster. Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human, human cell, or human tissue. Therapeutic cloning involves cloning cells from an adult for use in medicine and is an active area of research, while reproductive cloning would involve making cloned humans. Such reproductive cloning has not been performed and is illegal in many countries. A third type of cloning called replacement cloning is a theoretical possibility, and would be a combination of therapeutic and reproductive cloning. Replacement cloning would entail the replacement of an extensively damaged, failed, or failing body through cloning followed by whole or partial brain transplant. This type of replacement cloning would be almost the same thing that the Rossum Corporation did with the stolen bodies they imprinted themselves into. The difference with cloning, however, is that the body would actually be a genetically identical match and then all that would be needed is the transplanting (or imprinting?) of the brain into the new body. With such technology and procedures possible in the near future, the ethical and moral issues cannot wait and should be discussed, debated and guidelines and laws be developed now.
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