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It wouldn’t be you in any case. Basically the same as an identical twin.

Also, why would they bother?

Maybe if you were a celebrity of some sort, maybe, but even then..

I see a near future scam where people seek out genetic material of the wealthy to create children so that they can sue them for child support.

Imagine someone doing this to the judge that ruled they owe child support for their child from a previous marriage out of spite.

They could sell the organs back to you when you need one. Or the whole body for a brain transplant.

(This was a plot point in a sci-fi story I vaguely remember.)

You're probably thinking of "The Island"[1]. Good movie, I saw this myself a long time ago.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/

It’s a different one and I actually remember it better, but I didn’t want to spoil the plot twist for that story by naming it.

Err, so what was the one you were thinking of? I've seen The Island before, so would be potentially interested in something else along the same lines... :)

Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality,_Inc. ? (there was a movie too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freejack)

Thanks. :)

Even that is unlikely. We don't yet know what exact information is enough to recreate a human (or his twin) but by now we know that DNA alone is not.

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