The point is that you'll still be dead. You'd just be fooling yourself in to thinking the clone you gave birth to is you, when it's really a separate entity whose existence does not prevent your own death at all.
Every day the me that wakes up is a bit different to the me that went to sleep so I guess by that reasoning the old me is dead and I'm just fooling myself the the new me is the old me living on. It seems to work ok though.
