I do have religious beliefs, but I seriously doubt anyone can be cloned in the strictest sense of the term.

There are too many factors into the shaping of a personality. A clone will turn up being a complete individual person. Not a clone at all.

Cloning can be created through DNA manipulation, but what shapes a person is their personal environment. That's it, plain as PB+J with marshmellow spread.

Perhaps we can learn to alter genetic coding to eliminate heridatary diseases and increase our lifespan. Does cloning offer this?