How do you feel about this?

[moshquerade]

I'm going to reserve my comment for later in the thread.

Apr 9, 2009 11:00 am US/Eastern
Texas Judge Allows Mom To Collect Dead Son's Sperm
Mother: I Want Son To Live On
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ?

A judge ordered the Travis County Medical Examiner's office on Tuesday to maintain the body of a dead man in order for his sperm to be collected, granting his mother's wish for a chance to have a grandchild.

Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died Sunday at University Medical Center at Brackenridge after being punched and falling during a March 27 assault on an Austin street.

The order from Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman also directed medical examiner officials to provide access so an expert can take the specimen. Herman issued the orders after an emergency hearing at the request of Evans' mother, Marissa Evans.

"I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him," she said in a story in Tuesday's online edition of the Austin American-Statesman.

She said that her son wanted to have three sons and had chosen their names: Hunter, Tod and Van.

Evans and her attorneys were trying on Tuesday to find a urologist or other medical expert willing to collect the sperm.

Court documents said the sperm had to be collected within 24 hours of him being removed from life support unless the body was cooled to no more than 39.2 degrees. Herman said the body was being kept at the appropriate temperature.

University of Texas law professor John Robertson, who specializes in bioethics, said that state law gives parents control over a child's body for donation of organs and tissues but that "this use is very unclear."

"There are no strong precedents in favor of a parent being able to request post-mortem sperm retrieval," he said.

No arrests have been made in the assault on Nikolas Evans, which occurred after he and a friend left a bar late one night last month. Investigators said Evans hit his head on the ground after he was punched.

http://cbs3.com/national/dead.son.sperm.2.980847.html

 

[A Casual Fitz]

hm

 

[bctbct]

another weirdo in tx.

 

[Bateluer]

I've seen weirder . . . but this is kinda morbid. Imagine having to explain where the kid's daddy is when he's older.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Dunno. What was his IQ?

 

[JJChicken]

I think its creepy, this "grandson" will live his life knowing his dad died before he was conceived, let alone born.

 

[Newbian]

Now the question is will she be using it herself?

 

[dbk]

Did he have a gf/wife at the time of his death?

Who is going to be inseminated with the sperm? A surrogate? Who's going to raise the child?

What if the mom is lying about the whole thing just so she can have her dead son's children? :Q

 

[moshquerade]

i think it shouldn't be allowed. it's setting a scary precedent.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i think it shouldn't be allowed. it's setting a scary precedent.

It's...different. I'm not particularly scared by it though. Assuming she wants to use it in some remotely responsible way, like maybe making it available to some couple she knows who is having fertility problems, I don't see a real problem here.

 

[sandorski]

Would have refused.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i think it shouldn't be allowed. it's setting a gross and scary precedent.

fixed.

 

[seemingly random]

Ewwwww

 

[theflyingpig]

I see nothing wrong with this. Using the dead to benefit the living is a clear sign of advancing technology. In fact, I find this usage of medical technology fascinating.

 

[SagaLore]

If he was single, then I'm okay with this.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
I see nothing wrong with this. Using the dead to benefit the living is a clear sign of advancing technology. In fact, I find this usage of medical technology fascinating.

The only problem is what if a girlfriend or such does this so the child will inherit the dead persons fortune if the will didn't go to her liking?

 

[Pheran]

While this is kind of weird, I don't see any reason to disallow it.

 

[amdhunter]

I am fine with it as long as she swallows.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
If he was single, then I'm okay with this.

alright, you die prematurely, but your mother gets a judge to order you kept alive until someone can come in and retrieve some sperm out of you so that she can get someone to have your baby some time in the future and get to have her son back. Because you know that is likely what she is up to.

would you mind your mother doing that?

 

[Pheran]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: SagaLore
If he was single, then I'm okay with this.

alright, you die prematurely, but your mother gets a judge to order you kept alive until someone can come in and retrieve some sperm out of you so that she can get someone to have your baby some time in the future and get to have her son back. Because you know that is likely what she is up to.

would you mind your mother doing that?

Err, I don't care one way or the other since I'm dead.

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
I see nothing wrong with this. Using the dead to benefit the living is a clear sign of advancing technology. In fact, I find this usage of medical technology fascinating.

The only problem is what if a girlfriend or such does this so the child will inherit the dead persons fortune if the will didn't go to her liking?

I hadn't thought of that. I'm sure the living family will find a way to brainwash the child though. It is the way of things these days.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Newbian
Now the question is will she be using it herself?

It's Texas, not rural Mississippi.

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i think it shouldn't be allowed. it's setting a scary precedent.

I suppose you could write something into your Last Will and Testament to prevent it from happening, if you wished.

 

[Ballatician]

I think that since he is an adult, only he should have say with what happens to his body after death unless he passed that power to someone else in a will.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Pheran

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: SagaLore
If he was single, then I'm okay with this.

alright, you die prematurely, but your mother gets a judge to order you kept alive until someone can come in and retrieve some sperm out of you so that she can get someone to have your baby some time in the future and get to have her son back. Because you know that is likely what she is up to.

would you mind your mother doing that?

Err, I don't care one way or the other since I'm dead.

right.

but right now you are alive, so you can answer the question.

 

[Ruptga]

legally she should be able to do whatever she wants with the body, but ethically this is just effed up. I mean She will never have grandchildren from him; even if the guy's sperm is used the kid will be raised in another family, not hers. She just needs to let it go already.