A New York widow went to court in a bid to extract sperm from her husband after he committed suicide.
Victoria Chege told the court: 'Time is of the essence' as she begged to be allowed to create the family she says her husband George Kamau wanted.
Kamau, 37, hung himself on October 11 in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Now she wants to have his sperm extracted and frozen so that she can still have his children.
But she was told by company Sperm and Embryo Bank of New Jersey that she needed a court order before the process could take place.
'It was the intent of George Kamau to conceive a child prior to his untimely death,' Chege said in court papers.
She asked a Manhattan judge for immediate action because her late husband had 'expressed his desire to have children so that his legacy may continue,' the New York Post reported.
The judge gave her permission - but it may already be too late, the New York Daily News reported.
Experts have said that in such cases the sperm must be extracted within 36 hours after death.
Chege's best friend, Etaghua Asefa, has already agreed to act as a surrogate.
It was not clear why she was not to carry the baby herself, nor whose eggs would be used, hers or Asefa's.
Judges in Texas, California and New York have previously ruled that sperm can be taken from a dead man so that their wishes for a family can be met.
The Connecticut Medical Examiner office said Mr Kamau had committed suicide by hanging on October 11. It was not clear why he killed himself.
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