wtf?!

[electricland]

OK, this just seems wrong on so many levels:

Dead Israeli soldier to reproduce

JERUSALEM — In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier's family can have his sperm impregnated into the body of a woman he never met.

Keivan Cohen, 20, was shot dead in 2002 by a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip. He was single and left no will, but at the urging of his parents, a sample of his sperm was taken two hours after his death and has been stored in a hospital since.

When the family tried to gain access to the sperm, however, the hospital refused, on the ground that only a spouse could make such a request. Arguing that their son yearned to raise a family, his parents challenged that decision in court. And on Jan. 15, after a four-year legal battle, a Tel Aviv court granted the family's wish and ruled that the sperm could be injected into a woman selected by Mr. Cohen's family.

I'm sure their son did yearn to raise a family, but I expect, y'know, he wasn't expecting to do that AS A ZOMBIE.

For the record, if I'm hit by a bus tomorrow, by all means harvest my organs and give them to people who can use them, but please do not harvest my ova and have them fertilized. (I mean, if some other woman can use my ovaries, hey, yeah, I guess, go for it.) If I'm going to have kids I would like to be around to help with their upbringing.