If they can clone then they would only do this if they could do a BRAINTAPE TRANSFER If they can transfer their consciousness, then we can phantomzone them-- we can transfer their conciousness into a plutonium powered infinite microcomputer running a permanent virtual reality simulation into which they will be downloaded into solitary confinement prisoner avatars, seal the whole thing in a 5' brick of polycarbonate and send it adrift for eternity in space That's what they get for believing this singularitarian / transhumanist narrative that to achieve a digital apotheosis, the 'physical body must die, after the consciousness is raptured'