Opinions please.

Oh that is so sad. I think she should have been allowed to. Was there no wider family that could have helped with raising the children? No aunties or uncles?

The HFEA in Britain try to keep as tight a rein on embryo reaseach etc as they can and individuals seem out to subvert that.

www.hfea.gov.uk/46.html
A link about freezing and storing eggs including the current legal position.

Oh. Just read that it was eggs only that were frozen. It would be OK if the biological mother's partner was going to be the sperm donor. Certainly not the grandad!

This scenario was bound to arise with the development of IVF etc - I can understand the feelings of the 60 yr old. Terrible to lose a daughter, you could do anything to continue her existence.
Our neighbour here had babies by IVF when she was 55 and 57 - but for a completely different reason. As Jane Ainsworth says, the preparation with hormone treatment etc isn't something I would want to have.

Life is sometimes very cruel,for every person who tells their tragic story to the world,there are hundreds suffering as much or more in silence.Thats life I'm afraid.

While I am sad that as yet I have no prospect of DCs and will be very sad I read if I never have any, for whatever reason,I find it odd that the only 'ground'for turning down the requestappears to be that the dead daughter hadn't put it in writing
To me the whole concept is bizzare and wrong for so many reasons .
But I do feel sorry for the lady

I would gladly have been a surrogate for either of my daughters when I was younger, if they were unable to carry a child, but this is a different matter entirely. I think the eggs should be given to the donor programme. It probably wouldn't be possible to reveal the identity of the recipient, but in the right family it might work for the grandmother to be involved in the baby's life.