Dead Man's Sperm
February, 1998
The woman was distraught. Her husband had just committed suicide by hanging. She wanted to preserve his sperm. Was it possible? The doctor agreed to perform the operation, reasoning that the woman wanted her husband's child and that she herself was of sound mind.He stood over the corpse, cut the vas deferens (the conduit for sperm) and, to echo an old blues song, made a dead man come.A recent story in The New York Times detailed this and similar requests. Seeking to aid a woman who wanted to tak...
