Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Dead son's sperm to be removed

|
|
 
  
Published: April 8, 2009 at 7:28 PM

AUSTIN, Texas, April 8 (UPI) -- A Texas woman has successfully sued to preserve the body of her son for sperm extraction so she might have a grandchild, officials said.

The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman reported Wednesday that a Travis County Judge Guy Herman signed the order to preserve the body of Nikolas Colton Evans, 20, who died days after being severely assaulted.

The man's mother, Marissa Evans, requested the injunction so that a specialist can obtain the specimen.

Marissa Evans, 42, said she plans to use the sperm to have a grandchild through a surrogate mother. She said her son had planned to have three children, who would be named Hunter, Tod and Van.

"I want him to live on," Evans was quoted by the newspaper as saying. "I want to keep a piece of him."

Evans said she sued after hospital officials and representatives from an organ donation agency refused to

extract her son's sperm.

Recommended Stories
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
The smartphone is killing the art of conversation. Then again, people said that about regular cell...
Top 5 answers are on the board: "Name some woman Richard Dawson will kiss inappropriately in heaven."...
You know those modular classrooms where you had to go for your art and French classes in high school?...
Ugly ass baby giraffe born in Southern Illinois zoo. Adorable pictures "я" us
If your neighbors ask if you and your wife are into swapping and suggest having a swapping party...
It's a lie