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I... guess it would depend on a few more pieces of information.

Are we talking about ourselves specifically, or some other hypothetical person? I don't want children. I also hold the belief that children deserve to be wanted. Because I do not want children, if I had a child and kept it, I would, by my own standards, be behaving unethically. For similar reasons, I assume the person in this scenario is expected to keep the child instead of giving them up for adoption, because otherwise the timer on the parent's head is irrelevant.

Then there are other issues. Would the child have a large support system? Is the parent economically stable? Is whatever is going to kill the parent in this scenario inheritable? Etc, etc...

So... assuming the person in the scenario is me, no, I would not consider it to be ethical. Assuming it was someone else? It would still depend on a variety of factors, but I admit that I perhaps take the concept of bringing a human being into the world more seriously than the average person.