Should We Clone John Lennon?

Should We Clone John Lennon?
Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese wife Yoko Ono in 1969. (AP Photo)
Tara MacIsaac
8/21/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

John Lennon’s decayed tooth has been a prized object since he first gave it to housekeeper Dot Jarlett in the 1960s. Its current owner, Canadian dentist Michael Zuk, bought it at auction in 2011 for more than $30,000. 

Zuk now cherishes hopes of cloning the musician one day. 

In a  hypothetical debate on the value of cloning dead celebrities on chat forum TVTropes.com, a comment from “Five Seconds in the Future” reads: “Personality is shaped by far more than genetics. ... It would open many ways of abuse, fraud etc. Imagine a Stalker starts to clone and raise a copy of his infatuation.”  

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