More Than Just Memories
This website is aimed at selling stuff, so take it at face value, but it does list a series of high risk occupations that I found interesting.
One of the high-risk occupations not mentioned is Soldier. Yet, being activated for duty carries enough risk to the future of one’s family (I feel this could win an “understatement of the year” award), that in 2003, this sperm bank offered a significant discount to members of the military being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. According to this AFP article:
Many have done so not because they fear they will be killed but because of the risk they would be injured or exposed to chemicals during deployment which could affect their fertility.
Flash forward to 2007 - Kathleen Smith is the proud mother of a 15-month year old, born using IVF and the frozen sperm of her husband, who was killed two years before his son was born. Wow.
While this case seems to be to be a natural conclusion to a couple who had been planning to have a family, earlier this year, a Rachel Cohen was granted permission to extract sperm from her son’s dead body and use it to inseminate a willing surrogate, thus granting the deceased the son he always said he wanted, and, of course, an heir for the family. Currently,
Preparations are under way to inseminate the woman chosen by the Cohens, a 35-year-old unmarried economist who has declined to be publicly identified.
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