Post Mortem Conception
Life after Death
It is common experience that
significant number of human at some stage in their life they either hear about,
become aware of or knew someone or some family that shared the scourge and
tragic experience of newly married son or relative all of the sudden diagnosed
with terminal illness. Illness that in
matter of weeks starts a chain of metastasis ravaging the new husband immune
system and turns the lives of the newly married and their family into living
hell. There are number of cancers and
blood disorders that once diagnosed it is literally impossible to treat or
significantly arrest their progress to give the patient any meaningful
remission to enjoy semblance of quality of life. The suffering is not of the patient but also
that of the immediate family and close relative and friends. The myth that needs to be dispelled is the
often held belief that the terminal blood disorder, cancer, or disease started
all of the sudden without warning. Like
plants those diseases take time and often grow silent or with minimal
disruption to daily living. Often a
salient feature of such insidious diseases is subtle enlargement of lymph nodes
in the neck, under the armpit, groin, and a patient that had been feeling
unwell for while. Such features are more often than not missed in routine
medical check ups and visit to busy general practitioners who allocates 10 or
15 minutes to the consultation.
What is often ignored and rarely
thought about is that sperms in a male testis and spermatic cord survive up to
36 hours after that male officially declared dead. Most major hospitals in densely populated
areas and cities do have fertility clinics.
If the will of the newly married and now widowed wife (and possibly
others) is to fall pregnant to the love of her life there is a real chance she
can do so. The sperms from the testis of
the deceased can be surgically harvested and cryogenically frozen. Thereafter it is a matter for the fertility
clinic and the widowed wife to make the arrangement and attempt/s that leads to
conception. If that conception is
successful a widowed wife can have as many children from her departed husband
as the circumstance allows. Bizarre as
it may seem at first glance the cryogenically frozen sperms of the newly wed
deceased husband can, at least in theory, as a donor fertilize and give hope to
many women and childless couples.
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| Lives for 32 hours after |
More often than not it is the
will of the newly married deceased to have children and the chances are that he
would have discussed this with his wife. Off springs that carry his name and
memory. For the deceased’ parents it is
a gift befitting the adage: ‘nothing more
greater precious than a son but grandson’.
When we think about it the
genetic material that we as human carry and that distinguish us as individuals,
the RNA and DNA (ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid) are present in the
nuclei of cell of all living species including plants and animals. Cutting edge research in cellular biology
and genetics is now being undertaken in many laboratories around the
globe. It is not beyond the realms of
possibility, and more likely probabilities that species long extinct such as
dinosaurs can be brought back to life.
These advances raise very interesting parallel and highly controversial
question both ethically and religiously that, to my knowledge, none of the
three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) had specifically or
subtly addressed.
The parallel:
“Christianity tells us that on
the Day of Judgment the dead will be resurrected back to life. The newly
married and deceased husband whose sperms are harvested and cryogenically
preserved is ‘resurrected’ through his offspring albeit a later generation”.
There is no issue that both events fit the definition of resurrection. Needless to say on the Day of Judgment the
newly married and deceased husband will be brought back to life.
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| Resurrection.... |
Current day advances in genetic
understanding and genetic engineering led to the production of cross breeds and
modifications of plants and grains.
Whilst it may sound and read like science fiction it is by no mean
farfetched to think that within the foreseeable future long extinct animals
such as dinosaurs could be brought back to life.
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| Possible... |
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