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The man who bought John Lennon decayed tooth and his reason for buying it (pic)

By Muyiwa Olayinka

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John Lennon

John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism.

The Beatles was one of the most commercially successful and musically influential band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member  Paul Macartney formed the much-celebrated song writing partnership in the 70s.

After a visit to the dentist, John Lennon presented his removed molar to his housekeeper, Dorothy “Dot” Jarlett. Lennon suggested to Jarlett that she present the tooth to her daughter who was a Beatles super fan. The Jarlett family kept the tooth, which they received somewhere between 1964 and 1968.

On Monday, December 8, 1980, Lennon was shot by a lone shooter in the archway of Dakota, his residence in New York city.

Five bullets were pumped into his body and unfortunately, he died as a resulf of the wound he sustained from the attack.

It was in 2011 when they sold the molar tooth at an auction, raking in a reported $31,200. It is the most expensive tooth in the Lennon

Canadian dentist Michael Zuk purchased the discolored molar removed from John Lennon’s mouth at an auction for $31,200.

Do you want to know the reason why he purchased it?

Michael Zuk from Alberta, Canada hoped to extract enough genetic data from it to recreate the musician.

In his words:

‘If there is enough DNA to sequence it, it could be basically genetic real estate,’ he said

‘My goal is to own John Lennon’s DNA.’

Dr Zuk revealed that, once cloning technology is far advanced enough to replicate humans, he would clone Lennon and raise him as his own son.

There are obstacles. For one, human cloning is legally prohibited in Canada. It is also not yet a scientific reality, though experts say it’s probably biologically possible, or will be soon enough.

Those facts don’t perturb Dr. Michael Zuk, the dentist in question. “This is obviously science fiction at this point, but technology’s moving in that direction,” Zuk recently told Newsweek. “My prediction would be five years.”

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