Rich set harvest sperm for artificial grandson

london - A rich English couple used sperm from their dead son to still have an heir.

The 26-year-old boy died from a serious motorcycle accident. His father and mother then decided in the deepest secret to drain sperm two days after his death. That was exported frozen to America.

Via ivf and gender selection techniques, a test tube grandson was eventually born. The boy would now be three years old and live in England with his grandfather and grandmother, writes the Daily Mail.

In England a considerable debate has now arisen about whether this was ethically justified. The unmarried son would never have given permission for the draining of his sperm. That is why the question now is whether the parents can not be prosecuted. Gender selection is prohibited in England, but also in our country.

The ivf doctor doctor David Smotrich says in the Mail that the 'extremely wealthy' couple, according to him, had lost their son in a very tragic way. They very much wanted an heir. It was a privilege to be able to help them ', according to the 55-year-old IVF pioneer.

The young man was only found dead two days after the tragic accident. According to the Mail, sperm can still 'live' until 72 hours after someone's death.

The ivf doctor says that he has already helped five relatives in the same way to a baby in the past five years.