A cadet at the US Military Academy sustained fatal injuries in a ski accident last month and a few days later, a state Supreme Court judge granted his parents' petition to save their son's sperm in order to continue his legacy and their family lineage.
21-year-old Peter Zhu was found unresponsive on a ski slope on the academy grounds in upstate New York on February 23, according to a school news release. He was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center, where doctors determined that Zhu's spinal cord was fractured, and he was declared medically brain-dead three days later.
Zhu's parents, Yongmin and Monica Zhu of Concord, California, filed a petition Friday morning, pleading with the court to allow the hospital to proceed with a sperm retrieval procedure on their son's body. He always wanted to live on a ranch and raise a family and have horses, his parents said in in their petition and he is the only male child to continue the Zhu family lineage.

