Nikolas Colton Evans is dead. But that doesn’t mean he won’t be having children. A Texas judge has granted Evans’s mother’s request to have her dead son’s sperm harvested.  The Detroit Free Press reports:

Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died Sunday at a Brackenridge hospital after being punched and falling outside an Austin bar March 27. His mother, Marissa Evans, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that he wanted to have three sons someday and had even picked out their names: Hunter, Tod and Van.

“I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him,” she told the newspaper…

University of Texas law professor John Robertson, who specializes in bioethics, said state law gives parents control over a child’s body for organ and tissue donations but its use for sperm “is very unclear.”

“There are no strong precedents in favor of a parent being able to request postmortem sperm retrieval,” he said.

Texas probate Judge Guy Herman issued an emergency ruling granting Ms. Evans’s request: It was important to collect the sperm within 24 hours unless Nikolas’s body was cooled below 39.2 degrees.

What do you guys think of this situation?