Creating Life Amidst Death: The Lived Experience of Medical Professionals Performing Posthumous Sperm Retrieval

Michal Mahat-Shamir, Yael Doft, Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Shani Pitcho, School of Social Work, Ariel University, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, The Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, er Sheva

Qualitative Health Research

Published online on April 28, 2026

Abstract

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Posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) situates fertility clinicians at the paradoxical intersection of medical practice: creating the possibility of life during encounters with the dead. Little is known about how practitioners navigate the tension between ...