Posted on 03/05/2019 4:29:26 PM PST by SMGFan
U.S. Military Academy Cadet Peter Zhu was declared brain dead Wednesday, four days after the California resident was involved in a skiing accident.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — The parents of a 21-year-old West Point cadet fatally injured in a skiing accident raced the clock to get a judge's permission to retrieve his sperm for "the possibility of preserving some piece of our child that might live on." U.S. Military Academy Cadet Peter Zhu was declared brain dead Wednesday, four days after the California resident was involved in a skiing accident at West Point that fractured his spine and cut off oxygen to his brain.
"That afternoon, our entire world collapsed around us," Monica and Yongmin Zhu of Concord, California, said in a court petition. But they saw a brief window to fulfill at least part of Peter's oft-stated desire to one day raise five children.
The parents asked a state court judge Friday for permission to retrieve his sperm before his organs were removed for donation later that day at Westchester Medical Center. They argued the procedure needed to be done that day.
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what is this world coming to?
Gnarly to think about. I guess it depends on how they actually get it.
Any sperm bank workers out there? I always wanted to know what they did when a guy with no arms shows up.
No doubt they want to create another son, yet his Father could provide the sprem and his mother the egg if she is not yet in Menopause. I think they want to clone the kid and will now look for the perfect egg and a surrogate to take it to term and there you are the new son to raise all over again. Or are they looking for a Grandchild which would be the same result????????????
Nothing is private anymore. Nothing.
It’s not just the kids or Millineals oversharing on Instagram.
A lock of hair?
perhaps donate to the ideal mother of their grandchild was my thought.
He was dead. I believe there would be only one way.
If anybody could do it, I think she could.
I don’t disagree with the actions taken by the parents. But why does the press have access and why does the press have to be so invasive?
IIRC it would be obtained by needle aspiration
A shame this is the leading story about Cadet Peter Zhu.
He was one of the top students in his class — headed for Medical School (only a couple Westpointer get this honor). His loss is a true tragedy.
I cannot imagine the grief his family is experiencing.
Here is a youtube link to a video of his company mates and others expressing their respect for this young man. https://youtu.be/8BROZiTJPPA
“Be thou at Peace”
Not funny.
All they do is stick a hypodermic into the testicles and extract whatever sperm is there.
Is that AOC’s sister from the Bronx?
I’m not a trained comedian.
What they can retrieve from him is semen. Whether that semen contains sperm or not isn’t able to be determined visually.
Guy could have been sterile, theoretically.
And who do the parents get to be the mother....some off the boat slave trafficked Chinese girl? What if the potential mother was found to be carrying a girl instead of a boy?
I hope the judge asks lots of questions!!
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