Remember the story we told you a little while ago about a dead man’s sperm being granted to his family?  Well, that soldier who had passed away in the Iraq war had his sperm harvested from him moments after death, and the sperm was intended to be artificially implanted into a woman who was chosen by the family (he did not have a wife or fiancee).  Well, this new situation is a little different. 

The man in question this time, is a dying man who was involved in what sounds like a near fatal motorcycle accident.  He is currently in critical condition and has suffered multipled strokes since the accident.  He has little brain activity, and is expected to die very shortly, and the family, or more specifically, his young fiancee, is requesting that she be able to harvest his sperm before he dies.

She does make sense.  She says that he is all his mom and dad have, and to take his sperm and be able to prolong his genetic line, his parents will be able to, in essence, keep a part of him alive.  Initially the hospital who is keeping the young patient on life support did not want to honor his fiancee’s request for his sperm, but they have actually been ordered to by a court, who found in favor of the dying man’s fiancee. 

The hospital says that it wants to take care of its patient, and will no longer decline the fiancee’s request for her dying husband-to-be’s sperm.  I wonder how this works though, because artificial insemination is supposed to be very difficult to do, and many times takes more than one try to “take”.