The year is 2020. You are walking down the street and see your friend. You say goodbye to your friend and continue your walk, but then you pass by your friend again. This makes you turn around, you think your head is playing a game. But when you turn around there is not one, but two identical people in front of your eyes. This is an example of what cloning could be in the future. People will one day be able to create another version of themselves or someone else. Cloning doesn't just apply to creating whole human beings, it's also about trying to create new cells to help cure various diseases. Science and religion often collide, and in this situation they do so through most religions. Buddhism has arguments for and against cloning, while Catholicism does not like any kind of cloning. From a Buddhist point of view, suffering, illness and death are inevitable. The only way to free ourselves from reality is to reach enlightenment or nirvana which is the full understanding of the nature of existence. Reaching nirvana may take millions of lifetimes through the cycle of rebirth. People never remember their past lives, but only when they live their lives correctly will they be freed from this cycle. Buddhists believe that how children are born is irrelevant to life, so Buddhists support therapeutic cloning, but also reject reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning is a laboratory technique for creating a clonal embryo, using an egg with a donor nucleus (wikipedia.org). Buddhists support therapeutic cloning research and experiments because the goal is not to create a human being, but to create objects that can be used by humans. The idea of ​​therapeutic cloning… at the heart of the document… talking about cloning, I now advocate for 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 could be the answer to helping find the cure for cancer. I have lost two people to cancer in my life, and having the ability to not see another loved one suffer through something like that would be amazing. Global issues such as cloning will remain in play for a long time. There will always be people who despise the idea and others who support it. I think cloning is just one of the world's problems that will never be solved. Scientists want answers and results, but there will always be religion to fight back with. With the advances being made in the scientific world right now, there's no telling what might happen. Perhaps in a few years there could be a cloned human being or, better yet, a cure for cancer.