A "touching" story about mass sperm donation November 29, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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He was in his early 30s and lived alone, working as a bank clerk. He had no girlfriend, nor any close friends or family.
But Louis was on a secret mission, motivated by a deep anxiety that had built as he drifted through early adulthood. Profound questions of mortality were keeping him awake at night. “I had started to think, ‘Who will remember me when I’m gone? Who will talk about me? Who will be my heir?’” he says. “I think our biggest fear in life is not to die, but to be forgotten.”
So Louis made an audacious plan. If he wasn’t going to have children of his own in the normal way, maybe he could donate sperm in such quantity that – eventually – a child might try to find him. To pull it off, Louis would need to play a biological numbers game. “If I had 10 children this way, there would be a very slim chance of success,” he says. “But what if I had 100… or even more?”
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yurble
Some guy didn't want to "be forgotten" but it looked like he'd never find a partner so he donated lots of sperm, going around to three different clinics so nobody would catch on just how much he was donating. Meanwhile, the clinics turned a blind eye to the frequency of donations because they had a shortage of sperm, and lied about his accomplishments to potential recipients. All that, and someone managed to write this article as if none of that mattered, and how great it was that his dreams were realized because he has an estimated 200 offspring.
Re: A "touching" story about mass sperm donation November 30, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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So this guy wanted to not be forgotten? That's an interesting reason for donating sperm.
OTOH, check out this guy who wanted to be forgotten, but his "recipient" kept him in mind when it came to paying child support...
https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/justice/kansas-sperm-donation/index.html
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Pretty sure an autistic guy with poor education and low-level work isn't going to pay child support for 200 kids. What could they get from him, 5 cents/month per kid? But he won't have to pay because he did it through the donation system, which makes him at least moderately smarter than the idiot you mentioned.
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