Azehntel.136 net.suicide utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!berry Sat Jan 30 15:09:32 1982 Re: Too Grisly If I recall correctly, one of Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" stories had such a process. Slippery Jim DiGriz (The "stainless steel rat in a stainless steel society") was captured by the bad guys, and tortured by killing him repeatedly, with such a cloning system. The trouble was, he got used to it! So they had to stop. -berry