Stem cells don't always rime with cloning :>

Stem cells can be obtained from your own umbilical cord blood, without cloning you:

http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/681_1160.asp

To learn more about the many benefits (present and future) of the use of stem cells, please take a look at:

http://www.stemcellresearchfoundation.org/

http://www.stemcellaction.org/pages/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=72&Itemid=49

I belive that in a few years we will look at most of current surgery the same way we look at ancient surgery techniques:

• Ancient Rome


• Epilepsi
  
  [from here]
  
  


• brain surgery
  [from here]
  

Future medicine will probably look much less invasive and much more "biological" than what we have today...
and as McCoy once said: "Dialysis? What is this, the Dark Ages?"