Tim Ferriss’s latest post coincided perfectly with something I have been thinking about recently: Making a back-up of myself.
In a post entitled “How to Store Sperm in 4 Steps - Just in Case”, he writes :
“I never thought I’d visit a sperm bank.
Perhaps it was flipping a motorcycle at 90 mph on Infineon Raceway.
Perhaps it was tearing my Achilles tendon in jiu-jitsu practice, then getting thrown on my head.
Maybe having my scuba mask fill with blood at 120 feet underwater in Belize?That could have done it.
Or perhaps is was just crossing the 30-year age threshold and having friends who didn’t make it. 9/11, suicide, accidents — bad things happen to good people.
I’ve came to realize in 2007: it’s really not that hard to die. And that’s when I started thinking about storing my genetic material.
Yes, my little swimmies.”
I have already have a will and a Living Will , so this is the next step in an ultimate back-up.
Since I am absolutely certain that I would like to have children, there are two advantages:
1. I have a back-up in the event anything happens medically to prevent me from being able to have children. The massive rise in male infertility means that it may already be too late, but if it is not, best keep healthy sample of the “troops”.
2. In the event I die unexpectedly my partner would be able to have my children if she so chose (and I would hope she would).
Now my growing interest in the Quantified Self led me to consider getting my genes analysed, it seems logical to make a back-up too.
