It's 2020. You're walking down the street and you see your friend. You wave at your friend and continue your walk, but you pass your friend again. It makes you turn around, you think your head is playing with you. But when you turn around, it's not one, but two exactly identical people standing before your eyes. This is an example of what cloning can be in the future. People will one day be able to create another version of themselves or someone else. Cloning not only applies to the creation of whole human beings, but also concerns the attempt to create new cells to help cure different diseases. Science and religion often clash, and in this situation they do so in the majority of religions. Buddhism has arguments for and against cloning, while Catholicism does not like any type of cloning. From a Buddhist perspective, suffering, illness and death are inevitable. . The only way to free ourselves from reality is to achieve enlightenment or nirvana, which is the full understanding of the nature of existence. To reach nirvana, it can take millions of lifetimes through the cycle of rebirths. People never remember their past lives, but only when they live their lives correctly will they be freed from this cycle. Buddhists believe that the manner in which children are born has nothing to do with life. This is why they support therapeutic cloning, but also refute reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning is a laboratory technique for creating a clonal embryo, using an egg cell with a donor nucleus (wikipedia.org). Buddhists support research and experiments in therapeutic cloning because the goal of therapeutic cloning is not to create a human being, but rather to make objects that can be used for humans. The idea of ​​therapeutic cloning...... middle of article ......orting cloning, I now support a type of cloning which is therapeutic cloning, just like in Buddhism. What really caught my attention about therapeutic cloning was the idea that it may be the solution to helping find a cure for cancer. In my life, I have lost two people to cancer, and to have the opportunity to not see another loved one suffer from this would be incredible. Global problems like cloning will persist for a long time. There will always be people who despise the idea and others who support it. I think cloning is just a global problem that will never be solved. Scientists want answers and results, but there will always be religion to fight back. With the progress currently being made in the scientific world, we do not know what could happen. Maybe in a few years there will be a cloned human, or better yet, a cure for cancer..