Should I clone my dog?

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When my 6 month old rottie Iori died, my whole family was broken. Their was a big whole and a feeling of emptiness that fill our hearts, we still feel that he was in every corner of our home. And even our two small dogs, Momoshin and Imadori couldn't fill that emptiness that we had. It was only 6 months we know, but he was too young to just suddenly die without reason. My mom was so hurt of what had had happened that she told my sister and I that she doesn't want us to take another dog home. However we found out that the parents' dog of Iori had another set of litters so we decided to get a new puppy. We brought our new rottie home, my mom was filled with happines that she forgot of ever telling us that she didn't want us to get the new pup. The new puppy had helped our family recover from the loss that we had from Iori's death. To remember his death we made it to a point to light a candle every 30th of December for Iori. Chiquitin who is the new member of our family is from the same parents of Iori but he is a very different puppy and had made a very special place in our hearts. Last night I saw a video of a couple who loss their beloved dog and they went to spend around 80 thousand dollars just to have their dead dog cloned. Their reason was simple, they just can't move on from their loss and so they need their dog back. What do I think about it? I understand the pain that we all pet owners are going through whenever we loss our beloved pet. But is really cloning our pet the answer to that? Even if I will have the resource to clone my dog I still wouldn't do it. I know they may look the same but it would be very selfish and unfair of me to love that cloned puppy and see it as the dog that I loss. And that he was just loved and created for my own benefit. As I said, Chiquitin has the same breed as to his brother Iori but they are two different individuals with different characteristics and no matter how much we love Iori we have accepted that Chiquitin will never replace Iori in our hearts. But loving and having Chiqui in our lives really helped us heal our hearts from that pain and love again. We are creating a new memory with Chiquitin and cherish our moments with him and the memory that Iori has left will always be kept in our hearts. I can not judge this owners who cloned their dog, as a loss of our loveone can really be painful for us to bear. And everyone of us has a different way to deal with such pain, maybe this was their way to ease that pain. The healing process can take time for we had built memories together with our pets, we had a bond that is difficult to forget and we should remember that they were once part of our lives. I may not know the best way to recover from that pain, but one things for sure our pets would want us to remember them as they were. Cloning our pets would never replace the one that we loss, time will teach us how to accept and heal from that pain but we should respect that memory that our beloved pet had left us. We can never undo things but surely we can give that love that our pet had taught us to other dogs that need it and are waiting for it. My beloved Iori and other dogs that we had who died had taught my family a very important lesson in life, and that is to value the moment that we have with them and cherish every memory that we had made. Those are the things that money nor technology can't give us ''moments and memories''.