Parents Fight To Use Dead Son?s Sperm To Create Posthumous Grandchild

[shadyh8er]

Do you mind if I link this story to the "squick" page on TVTropes? This has to be some form of necrophilia, I swear!

LOL I was thinking the same thing man XD. I mean they're going to impregnate a woman with a dead man's sperm......KINKY!

OR

I know I really shouldn't be surprised at this point, but I still choose to be.

 

[iblis666]

How was this sperm extracted again, exactly....?

On a more serious note, they do ask the donor to donate organs or sperm. They can't ask him if it's alright to use his sperm, thus I believe their argument is flawed in that sense. I see where they are coming from though, I imagine they really wanted their son to grow up and have grandkids they'd have visit them and allow them to see the next generation grow up, possibly for the last time before they passed, and it really is tragic that they won't experience that and my deepest sympathies do go out to them for it, but it really isn't right I don't think... I mean do they already have a woman picked out? And who would raise the child?

On the other hand, I imagine their son probably doesn't care. He's dead :/

In some countries it isn't necessary to give permission yourself, parents can decide on it, on the organ part that is.
From wikipedia: The laws of different countries allow potential donors to permit or refuse donation, or give this choice to relatives.

Maybe the keyword is anonymity, sperm/organ donation is anonymous, in this case it isn't.

My mistake, merely speaking from my experience. If Israel practices this, then I see no problem.

if i died with no children id hope my parents loved me enough to harvest my seed so they might have grand children

 

[MrShadowzs]

This ummmm, kinda creepy but i guess its their son and it's their right, but i just know that kids gonna have one screwed up childhood

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

Of course they're unorthodox, they're Jewish!

Hmm, well normally if a son dies his belongings will go to his family or as stipulated by the will. The sperm belonged to him, now it doesn't as he is dead, so I suppose it goes to the family.

Which then means they can make the first spawn of a Jewish zombie.

second, you forgot Jesus he already did that come back form the dead thing, and he was a jew

Yes, there were two allusions in my response there. A joke on orthodoxy and an allusion to zombie Jesus. As for Jesus the Jew, yes he was of those people, but considering he broke pretty seriously with their traditions and beliefs, I do wonder why he is still considered such. Have a good one.

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

The parents of a deceased 27-year-old man are asking permission to use his sperm for conceiving their grandchild. Their son wasn't married, nor was he in a relationship. But his parents are now hoping to become grandparents of his yet to be conceived child. He died after an accident and went into a coma for two weeks, during this period the parents had his sperm extracted and are now awaiting the decision of Israel's attorney general on whether they'll be permitted to search for a woman to bear their grandchild. "If we were entitled to donate the organs of our son why are we not entitled to make use of his sperm in order to bring offspring to the world?"
They live in Israel, the world capital of in-vitro fertilization and a country that regularly pushes the envelope on reproductive technologies, this means they might actually get permission.

Source: Parents Fight To Use Dead Son's Sperm To Create Posthumous Grandchild [http://uk.jezebel.com/5785683/parents-fight-to-use-dead-sons-sperm-to-create-posthumous-grandchild]
Original article: Parents ask court to allow use of dead son's sperm [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/parents-ask-court-to-allow-use-of-dead-son-s-sperm-1.341689]


Somehow this just doesn't seem right to me. I have never lost a child so maybe I'm unfit to judge. I could imagine that you are devastated and heartbroken, but a grandchild isn't going to bring him back.
Also on the quote: "If we were entitled to donate the organs of our son why are we not entitled to make use of his sperm in order to bring offspring to the world?". I don't feel that they are the same thing, I mean organ donation is for saving lives, not creating them.

So yeah what do you think? Do parents have any saying on their children's fertility? Should they be allowed to go through with this and get a grandson?

Who's going to carry the baby, the MOM?!

 

[fnlrpa]

What is this candlejack thing yo

 

[Shuswah_Noir]

Yeah... That seems more than a little wrong to me. Getting a grandchild from his sperm isn't going to bring him back, and it isn't going to fill the hole left by his passing.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Why so they need to asm for permission in the first place?

Not that I agree with it, but...

 

[theultimateend]

i think that's a consent issue

which he can't give

because he's dead

also its more than a little creepy

I don't really find it creepy but I do think it's thinking outside the box.

 

[Merkavar]

i think its abit odd but i just dont see how it hurts anyone. aslong as the grand chuild isnt at higher risk of metal illness or deformaties cause the sperm was extracted from a dieing man pumped full of drugs etc i dont see how this really hurts anyone.

loads of kids are raised by their grandparents because their parents were killed. the only difference her is the parents were killed first.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

Y'know what this makes me think of? Idiocracy.

With that out of the way, this is an interesting issue. They're only doing what as living organisms they are programmed to do... but society will most likely dissaprove of this new and wierd thing. Besides, where's the child going to be raised? An orphanage? I mean, the loss of a father is bad, but intentionally not having one there to begin with?

 

[Ceil-Sama]

I don't see anything wrong with it. It may be a little strange, but perhaps the parents just want a small part of their son to remain. It does raise the question of who will raise the child, but if if thats solved, say the grandparents raising him for as long as they can, then theres no real problem.

 

[Nouw]

Seriously,
What.
The.
Fuck.

My first thoughts, trying not be judgmental but to me that is just plain old wrong. Of course it's probably culture/religion.
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