title: [Post mortem semen acquisition: not without 'informed consent'].
abstract: Recently, two requests for post-mortem semen acquisition were evaluated and rejected. The first request was from the wife of a man who died after the wedding night. In the second case, the wife requested that electroejaculation be done on a man who was brain dead because of a gunshot wound in the head. In both cases, the fact that there was no written consent from the men involved before they died was the deciding reason not to grant the requests. Written consent is legally and ethically seen as the final episode of a period in which persons have considered the consequences of the acquisition, storage and use of semen after the death of the husband.
authors.affiliation: Afd. Urologie, Erasmus Medisch Centrum, locatie Dijkzigt, Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam. berendrikken@zonnet.nl
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rikken
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Blondeau
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Dohle
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Bangma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008297:Male; D037022:Posthumous Conception / Q000941:ethics*; D012662:Semen Preservation / Q000941:ethics; D013094:Spermatozoa; D017805:Widowhood / Q000523:psychology