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I honestly never understood this argument that you open your post with:

It sucks losing your family, I almost considered bringing back a loved one even if I had to put them in the 'Pet Semetary'. It won't be the same, and doing that seems selfish, I cant do it, no clones.

1. There is a difference between the Pet Sematary scenario and this movie's premise. In PS, the ones who come back, come back wrong, without a soul, just in their flesh, evil, corrupted. Grief is obviously so insanely powerful, that if there is the slightest chance of bringing back the person you lost, you'll take it. But then you need to realize that this is wrong, and the corrupted returning version of the person must be destroyed by them - completing the grieving process in a sick and twisted way. King's message is that death is a line you never want to cross and you need to respect the grieving process. But here in Replicas, things are vastly different.

There is no cosmic horror aspect here, and aside from a throwaway line, "soul" is not even mentioned. The main character is a true materialist, which means we are to believe that digitizing people's brains is a process that really creates a 100% identical copy of their mind, nothing is missing, soul is not needed at all. And since it's science, they are not "coming back wrong" - not even when you mess with their memories (which is ridiculous for different reasons, but oh well). He gets no punishment for his efforts, since he is a man of science, and death is something science can overcome.

Soo... would you still say you wouldn't bring them back in this second scenario? I doubt it!

2. ... and it wouldn't be selfish. Maybe in part, yes, you're doing this partly for yourself, but they died prematurely, so it's obvious that you are doing this for them, to experience life as they should have, to get a chance to reach their goals in life, to live. I never understood the "it is selfish" argument.

It would be selfish, if he created digital copies of them in a VR-world and from time to time he would login and interact with them. That would be selfish, because that's a facsimile of a life, where his family would have no chance to live their lives normally. However as it is presented in the movie, their consciousness is continuous, and they are flesh and blood present in the real world, are able to interact with it, etc. So they got their lives back. Nothing bad about this!

I guess I wanted things to go wrong. He seemed to get what he wanted but the movie will get only 1 watch from me

Yes, he got what he wanted, and it's kind of a refreshing take on the genre. Kind of... because there are a million other reasons why this movie was bad, and other than this "nothing goes wrong" spin on things, the movie offered nothing else, really. The chase scenes were dumb and without any effort to make them actually exciting, and the plot developments were laughable and the iternal consistency was virtually nonexistent. But it did not really need the "clones are going bad" kind of story, and I kind of respect that they did not go that way.