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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 with a case in which a man’s sperm was collected 30 hours after his death and stored for 15 months before a woman was inseminated.”

I’m sure that Marissa Evans is grieving tremendously and my condolences go out to her and her family. And though the advances in technology and amazing, I think that collecting the sperm from someone who is dead is just…well, weird.

There’s a point of ethics too. This child will grow up not knowing the biological father or mother (most likely). And though Evans may make a wonderful grandparent, who will explain to the child how he was conceived?

What do you think? Weigh in below in the comments and let us know. Should a mother be able to petition the court to approve the collection of her dead son’s sperm?

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