We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.