Cloning for a longer life?

As I read Oryx and Crake, I realized that the story was very similar to a movie I had seen called “The Island” (2005). This movie opens in a strictly regulated compound where everyone is dressed the same way, they all eat healthy food, they perform medical tests everyday and there are guards watching their every move. From the very beginning, this looks a lot like the environment people live in, in Oryx and Crake. They are told that the world was contaminated by a disease world wide, that they were the only survivors and that the compound is the only place that is not contaminated. In Oryx and Crake, humanity also died from a disease world wide. The hope of everyone in this compound is to win the lottery. When a person wins, he is sent to “the Island” which is described as paradise land and also the only part of the world that was not contaminated. The main character questions his life and decides to investigate. He soon realizes that he is a clone. Rich people in America pay millions of dollars to have a clone created for them. Anytime these people need a face-lift or a transplant, they take what they need from the clones; they can even get babies from their clones. Obviously, this is very similar to the the pigoons in Oryx and Crake. 

When the doctor presents the project to potential buyers, he lies and says that they are in vegetative states, so they never reach consciousness, they don’t feel anything, they don’t suffer. The doctor wants them to think that they are products which don’t ever think or reach consciousness so they won’t feel bad about it. As soon as the doctors describes the clones, a public relations guy comes in and tells them that it’s the best and smartest investment they will ever make and that they will live 60-70 years longer. Like, in Oryx and Crake, it is not only about the science but also the business side of it. At the end of the movie, the main character meets his sponsor, the one who had him made, to tell him the truth about the clones. The doctor wants to kill the clone because he is a threat, but since the sponsor and the clone look exactly alike he doesn’t know which one is the clone. This is a major theme in Oryx and Crake, at some point, they don’t know what is real and fake anymore.

Description of the clones in the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDzcwvdu0GY

It seems that all the creations in Oryx and Crake are very futuristic and a little far-fetched, but after a bit of research, we realize that some of their inventions already exist nowadays. I can’t help but wonder if we have crossed some sort of line here. Will our world ever resemble what we see in science fiction? If you had the opportunity to create a clone of yourself, like people are doing in this movie, would you do it?