Saturday, April 11, 2009

Would you do this?

This is definitely the strangest story I've seen since Ted Williams' death.


DALLAS – Nikolas Colton Evans had talked about how much he wanted to have a child, but the 21-year-old died after he was punched and hit his head on the ground in a fight. That would have been the end of it, if it weren't for his determined mother, a court order and a urologist.
Missy Evans has harvested her dead son's sperm and hopes to find a surrogate and one day raise her son's child. It's a decision that ethicists say raises troubling questions; one called the potential offspring a "replacement child."
Evans isn't concerned about what others might think. She says she is only doing what her son would have wanted.
"He would love me so much for doing this," she said.
Austin police say Nikolas Evans was punched during a fight on an Austin street early March 27 and then fell to the ground, striking his head. He died April 5. Police are still trying to identify the person who hit him.

1 comment:

Connie said...

No, I wouldn't do that. That sounds pretty bizarre to me. I'm sure she is grieving the loss of her son, but this seems like the wrong way to go about healing. Seems rather sad.

Happy Easter to you, Struke!