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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Unmarried 20 year old Israeli soldier killed by Palestinians. Parents request that at autopsy, dead son's sperm is saved and preserved for future use. Sperm saved.

Mother puts out the word through the newspapers that she's looking for someone to be inseminated by her dead son's sperm. She gets over 200 responses.

Parents fight in court for four years to be allowed access to the sperm. Israeli law apparently only let spouses recover the sperm of the deceased. Parents say son always wanted to be a father and this is consistant with what he would have wanted. Parents win.

Now, a 35 year old unmarried economist is getting ready to be impregnated by the sperm of a dead man she never knew.

Questions: Doesn't this sound like a recipe for disaster for the poor kid? A grandmother obessed with dead father, national media attention on the kid before even in vitro, much less in vivo, single parent household (with, of course, an inlaw from hell).

Isn't this less about honoring the dead kid's wishes than his mom's inability to let him go? He can't be a father. He's dead.

Would you even consider doing something like this? Sure, I have the "if i'm not with child by X age, I'm getting a bottle of Scotch and seducing one of my gay friends" contingency plan, but at least the putative father would be alive. Hell, even going to a sperm bank for some unknown jackass's spunk would be preferable to having my kid be the living memorial to some other woman's kid. No matter what perks and free babysitting came with the gig.

Guys: would you want your sperm to live on without you and go to some chick you've never met?

Garp! Garp!