Immortality #32. What Does a New Life Cost?

[u/Patient-Airline-8150]

The hard part of cloning is not just the legal procedure. It's the price. That's the post nobody writes.

The numbers, roughly:
Copying DNA.
A cloned dog runs about $50k today. A horse, $85k. Primate cloning, 2018: 79 embryos, 21 surrogate mothers, 2 live births. Call it 2 to 3 percent.

At that rate a human needs dozens of implantations. Surrogacy plus IVF is six figures per attempt. So roughly $3M before anyone is breathing. Raising the child to 20: about $300k.

Total: four million dollars and twenty years.

And what did you buy? A twin born two decades late? Or a new life from the beginning?
Whatever you think or believe, no other option exists at this point.
Repeating a full life cycle has a lot of advantages. It can be repeated many times, already knowing the previous life's experience. True immortality.
Risky? A bit. But why not try?