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This 3-page paper answers some questions about the difficult issue of sperm harveseting, following the death (or in this case, the brain death) of a man, whose wife wanted to have his child. The two had discussed while he was alive, and this paper addresses the pros and cons of her request. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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from an accident, Mrs. D. asked the hospital if someone could harvest Mr. Ds sperm from his body (which was brain-dead) so she could try to be pregnant. Claiming that
Mr. D. would approve (not to mention that she was next of kin and could then dispose of his remains and property as she deemed fit), she didnt see a
problem with this. But the hospital staff had a problem with this morally. Others, however, thought it would be a wonderful expression of love and devotion, and would give Mrs.
D. something precious in her husbands absence. Would the situation seem more, less, or equally acceptable if Mr. D. were still alive but irreversibly comatose?
According to Soules (1999), there tends to be a "strong medical, legal and social consensus" when it comes to harvesting and storing human gametes (both egg
and sperm) following death. Its his perspective that there is a debate as to whether "informed consent" needed to be obtained from the deceased (or brain-dead) person, or next of
kin (Soules, 1999). Soules does point out, however, that if it is up to next of kin, that there should be, in his words a "reasonable inferred wish of the
decease to reproduce after death" (p. 362). This is definitely the inferred wish - Mrs. D., in fact, was pretty emphatic about it.
But Soules also points out that the concept of "doing no harm," which is the physicians motto, could be at compromise here. He points out that there could be
harm when it comes to harvesting gametes after death, because its uncertain as to the quality once theyre out of the body (and these could o harm both to the
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