Time posted an article titles "Should Men Be Allowed to Father Children After They're Dead?" In the article the issue of using frozen sperm posthumously to conceive children is looked at.
"In Australia, a woman was granted permission last month to use her dead husband's sperm in an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) attempt to create a child. In Israel, grieving grandparents are petitioning a court to allow them to use their dead son's sperm to conceive a grandchild. And in California, a woman is due in three months with her husband's child — even though her husband died not long before she got pregnant."
This children at any cost, using them to recover from the grief of losing a loved one, disturbs me. Children are not replacements, and they shouldn't be brought into the world because a wife or parents are desperate to hold on to some part of the person they lost.
I have been through several heart shattering deaths in my life, and understand the desire for having something, anything, of the person who is now gone still be a part of my everyday world. But children should be brought into the world because they are wanted, not because they are a fragile link to a deceased partner or child.
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