A mother has been given permission to take sperm from her dead son so she can have the option of carrying out his wish to have children.
Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died on Sunday in hospital after a fight outside a bar in Austin, Texas.
His mother Marissa Evans said that he wanted to have three sons someday and had even picked out their names: Hunter, Tod and Van.
"I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him," she told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper
Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman ruled she could collect the sperm after an emergency hearing requested by the mother.
Court documents said the sperm had to be collected within 24 hours of Mr Evans being removed from life support unless the body was cooled to no more than 4C.
Judge Herman ordered the county medical examiner to continue storing the body at the proper temperature until the sperm could be collected.
Mrs Evans and her lawyers are trying to find a doctor willing to collect the sperm for a possible surrogate pregnancy in the future.
University of Texas law professor John Robertson, who specialises in bioethics, said state law gives parents control over a child's body for organ and tissue donations but its use for sperm "is very unclear."
"There are no strong precedents in favour of a parent being able to request post-mortem sperm retrieval," he said.
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Naah I think his sperm is for "artificial impregnation". So someday a woman might find his sperm suitable, go through the process, thus, he will have children although he is dead.
Well if she wants to continue his legacy then I don't see anything wrong with that. There are some women out there that would be happy to be impregnated with his sperms...not me though