Will I Live Forever?

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IMAGINE Will You live in a future world, not very far off, where people’s DNA can be saved and frozen after they die. The technology for and human cloning has been perfected. In this world there are also DNA robbers, who dig up the graves of the recently dead, Testam and take samples. Some of these pirates clone people, and then try to sell the babies back to their families. ent

. Do you want your family to clone you, using your DNA? . If a clone is made what should be done with it? Who should be its parents? . If you don’t want to be cloned, what will happen to your body.

YOU MUST WRITE A WILL SO YOUR FAMILY WILL KNOW YOUR WISHES.

STEP ONE Decide if it is acceptable to you to be cloned after you die.

STEP TWO Decide what will you have done with your DNA or your body.

STEP THREE Complete the fill-in-the-blank will.

Assessment Scheme Instructions to family (K – 4 points) Reasons (M – 8 points) Other Instructions (T/I – 4 points) Language conventions (C – 4 points) Last Will and Testament of ______Dated this day in 2035 The______following are instructions to my family about ______what______should be done with my D.N.A.: ______

1. ______

2. ______My reasons for choosing this are the following: ______3. ______

4. ______

______Other______instructions to my family:. ______

Signed and certified by the original and uncloned ______(signature) Other instructions to my family:.

Signed and certified by the original and uncloned ______(signature)