Life after death: Ethical issues and principles of mental health care professionals in postmortem reproduction

Abstract

Postmortem reproduction refers to normally unnatural situations that are made possible by modern medical technology. It's a definition that applies to a situation in which one parent of an offspring is dead at the time of conception of the offspring or at the time of birth of the offspring. It is a situation which raises complex and multifactorial dilemma as with most issues that concern decisions over human life; accordingly, this discussion of its ethical ramifications is not intended to be exhaustive, but illustrative.

Keywords:

• Conception
• postmortem fertility
• reproductive choices
• decisionmaking