Judge OK’s Collection of Dead Son’s Sperm
April 9, 2009 by Kelly Townsend
Filed under Weird News
After the tragic loss of her 21-year-old son, Marissa Evans still wanted a grandchild and it seems she found a way. On Tuesday, Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman granted permission for the sperm of Nikolas Colton Evans to be collected post mortem. Image: sxc.hu Nikolas died on Sunday after being punched and falling during an assault on Sixth Street in Austin on March 27. “I want him to live on,” Evans told the Stateman. “I want to keep a piece of him.” His mother plans to have a surrogate mother impregnated with her dead son’s sperm. Though I had never heard of something like this being done before, the newspaper says: “Dr. Elizabeth Houser, a urologist for the Urology Team in Austin, said she is familiar... [Read more]
